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The Great Recession has been characterised by the two stylized facts: the buildup of leverage in the household sector in the period preceding the recession and a protracted economic recovery that followed. We attempt to explain these two facts as an information friction, whereby agents are...
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We explore empirically how the time-varying allocation of credit across firms with heterogeneous credit quality matters for financial stability outcomes. Using firm-level data for 55 countries over 1991-2016, we show that the riskiness of credit allocation, captured by Greenwood and Hanson...
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This paper analyzes the impact of US firms’ equity risk on bank lending standards and on the macroeconomy for two … groups: small and medium-large firms. The results indicate that a higher level of firm risk leads to a higher percentage of …-large firms. The finding provides support for the Risk Management Hypothesis, under which banks decrease lending to risky …
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financial markets. The climate related risk is divided into three subcategories, the environmental uncertainty, the economic … climate risk and the climate policy risk, which all of them may affect the markets directly or indirectly. The perspective is … market valuation of the climate risk. …
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landscape. This research aims to evaluate the efficiency of converting sustainable development outcomes, quantified through ESG …. The results reveal that only one financial institution has an efficiency score of 1, signifying a notable efficiency level …. Most financial institutions in the dataset possess efficiency scores (represented by theta) below 0.1, indicating a …
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The study concentrates on the comparison of hedge fund efficiency measured by maximum drawdown measures with … traditional risk/return ratios. The examined period is from 1990 to 2011 and the data were provided by Hedge Fund Research. It is … were interesting and showed that the results of complex efficiency measures aren’t much different from traditional measures …
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This paper explores the relationship between central bank communication and market sentiment,and proposes a new measure. Market sentiment is proxied using a Twitter-based metric: theCentral Bank Surprise Index. The empirical study covers three cases: the Federal Reserve, theEuropean Central Bank...
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predict the inherent risk level in the loans they administer and avoid risky borrowers. The recent rise in defaults rates and … the size of non-performing loans among the Nigerian commercial banks therefore puts to question the efficiency of the … default risk outcome. Disparities between the two reflect the extent by which the assessment of risks by banks was inefficient …
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The article analyzes efficiency of the Czech treasury T-bill market and the interbank deposit market over period 1993 …
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For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...
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