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This paper studies contagion and market freezes caused by uncertainty in financial network structures and provides … alleviate market freezes and contagion, such as information policy, bailout policy and the lender of last resort policy, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368298
This paper studies contagion and market freezes caused by uncertainty in financial network structures and provides … alleviate market freezes and contagion, such as information policy, bailout policy and the lender of last resort policy, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721582
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This paper establishes a theoretical model to examine the LOLR policy when a central bank cannot distinguish between solvent and insolvent banks. We study two cases: a case where the central bank cannot screen insolvent banks and a case where the central bank can only imperfectly screen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368293
This paper provides a unified theory to explain the onset of the financial crisis in 1998 and the striking economic recovery in Russia and the former Soviet Union afterwards. Before the crisis, the banking sector in these economies was stuck in a development trap in which the banking sector is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427358
We explain why central counterparties (CCPs) emerged historically. With standardized contracts, it is optimal to insure counterparty risk by clearing those contracts through a CCP that uses novation and mutualization. As netting is not essential for these services, it does not explain why CCPs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290393
We explain why central counterparties (CCPs) emerged historically. With standardized contracts, it is optimal to insure counterparty risk by clearing those contracts through a CCP that uses novation and mutualization. As netting is not essential for these services, it does not explain why CCPs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996901
This paper establishes a theoretical model to examine the LOLR policy when a central bank cannot distinguish between solvent and insolvent banks. We study two cases: a case where the central bank cannot screen insolvent banks and a case where the central bank can only imperfectly screen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790246
The authors explain why central counterparties (CCPs) emerged historically. With standardized contracts, it is optimal to insure counterparty risk by clearing those contracts through a CCP that uses novation and mutualization. As netting is not essential for these services, it does not explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137415
Consistent with hedge funds trading on privileged information during the wall-crossing period, we document negative abnormal returns and abnormally high short selling in the trading days just prior to the private placements of U.S. convertible bonds, no pre-placement negative abnormal returns...
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