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This paper aims to determine evidence about the efficiency of commercial banks under crisis periods when compared against their regular operating periods. Particularly, the Chilean and Mexican banking industries are reviewed by an innovated Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology. Conclusive...
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The introduction of the direct reduction (fully-amortized) loan contract to the U.S. residential mortgage market is an important instance of financial innovation. We describe the adoption of this contract within the building and loan (B&L) industry beginning in the 1880s and culminating in the...
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This paper studies the international propagation of sovereign debt default. We posit a two-country economy where capital constrained banks grant loans to firms and invest in bonds issued by the domestic and the foreign government. The model economy is calibrated to data from Europe, with the two...
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This paper explores the causes and consequences of cross-country variation in mortgage market structure. It draws on insights from several fields: urban economics, asset pricing, behavioral finance, financial intermediation, and macroeconomics. It discusses lessons from the credit boom, the...
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The past decade has seen significant changes in the structure of the corporate lending market, with non-bank … institutional investors playing larger roles than they historically have played. These non-bank institutional lenders typically have … higher required rates of return than banks, but invest in the same loan facilities. We hypothesize that non-bank …
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; (ii) making sure markets will understand that the risk of bail-in is concentrated on long-term bank liabilities. …
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We examine crossborder contagion from a number of financial systems to the German financial system using the information content of CDS prices in a GARCH model. After controlling for common factors which may cause comovement in security prices, we find evidence for contagion from the US and...
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financial integration involving the inter-bank market since the first crisis and the market for government bonds since the …
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The offshore renminbi (CNH) exchange rate is the exchange rate of the Chinese currency transacted outside China. We study the CNH exchange rate dynamics and its links with onshore exchange rates. Using a specialized microstructure dataset, we find that CNH is significantly affected by its order...
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The aim of this paper is to propose a model of money laundering and an economic analysis model of money laundering by usury. The first one is an evolution of a model already present in the literature and the difference is in the way to evaluate the advantage for a criminal to reinvest the...
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