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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278152
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278206
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Banking bubbles and financial crises
Miao, Jianjun; Wang, Pengfei - In: Journal of Economic Theory 157 (2015) C, pp. 763-792
This paper develops a tractable macroeconomic model with a banking sector in which banks face endogenous borrowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263607
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On the existence and prevention of asset price bubbles
Enders, Zeno; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2010
We develop a model of rational bubbles based on the assumptions of unknown market liquidity and limited liability of traders. In a bubble, the price of an asset rises dynamically above its steady-state value, justified by rational expectations about future price developments. The larger the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286704
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Do surges in international capital flows influence the likelihood of banking crises? Cross-country evidence on capital flows bonanzas and bonanza-boom-bust cycles
Caballero, Julian - 2010
This paper asks if bonanzas (i.e. surges) in net capital flows are associated with a higher likelihood of banking crises and whether this association is necessarily through a lending boom mechanism. Using a new database covering over one hundred countries during 1973-2008, the paper shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287781
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Decomposing financial (in)stability in emerging economies
Lepers, Etienne; Sánchez Serrano, Antonio - 2017
The build-up of risks in advanced economies has seen a lot of research efforts in the recent years, while similar research efforts on emerging economies have not been so strong and, when undertaken, have focused mostly on its international dimension. Simultaneously, the financial system of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984822
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Business cycles and the balance sheets of the financial and non-financial sectors
Villacorta, Alonso - 2018
banks' and firms' balance sheets in real activity. The net worth of firms determines their borrowing capacity both from … households and banks. Banks provide risky loans to multiple firms and use their diversified portfolio as collateral to borrow … from households. This intermediation process allows additional funds to flow from households to firms. Banks require net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984851
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A new database for financial crises in European countries: ECB/ESRB EU crises database
Lo Duca, Marco; Koban, Anne; Basten, Marisa; Bengtsson, … - 2017
This paper presents a new database for financial crises in European countries, which serves as an important step towards establishing a common ground for macroprudential oversight and policymaking in the EU. The database focuses on providing precise chronological definitions of crisis periods to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984884
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Contagion and Spillovers: New Insights from the Crisis
Backé, Peter; Feldkircher, Martin; Gnan, Ernest; … - 2010
On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689946
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Policies in Hard Times: Assessing the Impact of Financial Crises on Structural Reforms
Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2017
It is argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739635