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Derivatives were initially a response to the increased volatility of financial markets, but then the growth of financial derivatives has played a role in exacerbating shocks. Hence, implications of derivatives for the functioning of financial markets may differ between normal and crisis...
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This paper contributes to the literature comparing the relative performance of financial intermediaries and markets by studying an environment in which a trade-off between risk sharing and growth arises endogenously. Financial intermediaries provide insurance to households against a liquidity...
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risks posed by individual banks but also, importantly, those posed by nonbanks and the system as a whole. The recent …
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We describe a dynamic model of financial intermediation in which fundamental characteristics of the economy imply a unique equilibrium path of bank and financial market lending. Yet we also show that economies whose fundamental characteristics have converged may continue to have very different...
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This paper analyzes the financing choices of banks under capital regulation during the expansion period that preceded … the crisis. We use data from Dealogic on the issuances of financial instruments of Spanish banks to test whether financing … choices respond to predictions derived from the corporate finance theory and/or to capital regulation. We find that banks …
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The 1980s and 1990s have been marked with a series of financial and banking crises all over the world. This turned the attention of economists to such questions as how a financial system should be structured in order to reduce the vulnerability of an economy to the risk of a crisis, or what...
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undertaken to understand the importance of financial products in Portugal for banks and private clients. Different financial … products can provide to banks an important role on their revenues and liquidity. For clients allows to invest their savings …: deposits, investment funds, securities, and insurance banking. The six largest banks with Portuguese headquarters were …
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