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that asset booms, bubbles and busts continue posing a threat to financial stability despite financial markets becoming …
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bubbles continue to threaten economic stability despite financial markets becoming more informationally-efficient, more …
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We study the existence and international transmission of housing market bubbles, using quarterly information of twenty … OECD countries for the period comprised between 1970 and 2015. We find that housing bubbles are present in all the … countries included in our sample. Multiple bubbles are found in all but two of those countries. We find five episodes of …
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We develop a model of rational bubbles based on leverage and the assumption of an imprecisely known maximum market size … decide whether to lend to traders with limited liability. Bubbles increase welfare of the initial asset holders, but reduce … welfare of future households. We provide general conditions for the possibility of bubbles depending on uncertainty about …
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builds up, during the run-up phase of crises and asset price bubbles, and increases when systemic risk materializes …
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erupted in 2007, the phenomenon migrated selectively into the commodity market and the bond market, creating bubbles which …
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We show how the timing of financial innovation might have contributed to the mortgage boom and then to the bust of 2007-2009. We study the effect of leverage, tranching, securitization and CDS on asset prices in a general equilibrium model with collateral. We show why tranching and leverage tend...
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We analyze the determinants of real estate and credit bubbles using a unique borrower-lender matched dataset on …
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This paper presents an in-depth analysis of developments in the microfinance sector before and after the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 by comparing them with developments in traditional banking sectors of emerging market economies and developing countries. The findings indicate that...
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We analyze whether mid-level managers in securitized finance were aware of a large-scale housing bubble and a looming crisis in 2004-2006 using their personal home transaction data. We find that the average person in our sample neither timed the market nor were cautious in their home...
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