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We develop a New Keynesian model where all payments between agents require bank deposits, bank deposits are created … through disbursement of bank loans, and banks face convex lending costs. At the zero lower bound on deposit rates (ZLBD …
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information about bank performance when the quality of the information provided by the bank is higher. We also provide evidence … view that bank transparency is a double-edged sword: While more information facilitates monitoring by depositors, it also …
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We show that maturity transformation does not expose banks to interest rate risk---it hedges it. The reason is the deposit franchise, which allows banks to pay deposit rates that are low and insensitive to market interest rates. Hedging the deposit franchise requires banks to earn income that is...
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account and taxing paper currency, the central bank can escape the zero bound, optimize its seignorage and eliminate … systematic profit shortfalls. By following a variant of Friedman's rule, the central bank can remove the market disruption of …
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In this paper we relate a bank's choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …
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impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular, results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers … vary substantially across studies. In this paper, we aim for a comprehensive empirical analysis of a bank merger's impact … monthly frequency for the time period 1997-2006. These data are matched with individual bank and local market characteristics …
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This paper analyses the concentration of the banking system in Croatia and the impact of concentration on stability of the economic system as a whole over the period since 2002 to 2017. The level of concentration is usually related to the competitiveness of a particular sector, in this case the...
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This paper explores the origins of Andorra's financial cluster. It shows that the free movement of currency, the protection of infant industry, and geographical concentration lie at the foundation of the cluster's competitive advantage. Drawing on a new set of data, the paper also provides for...
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In recent years the Russian banking system has witnessed numerous bank license withdrawals. Many of the failed banks … data on Russian bank deposit interest rates for deposits of different maturities in 2015–2016 combined with data about bank … fundamentals coming from their financial statements. The results suggest that if a bank offers too generous interest rates for …
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Using data from Bangladesh, this paper finds that the liquidity premium—the difference between the interest paid on illiquid and liquid savings accounts—is higher in commercial banks than in microfinance institutions. One possible interpretation lies in the higher prevalence of...
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