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This paper presents a model of repo intermediation in which dealers intermediate secured financing between lenders and borrowers using the same collateral. Lenders are insulated from dealers through their repo's collateral, but borrowers are exposed to dealers through the loss of their...
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Specialness - the premium of procuring a specific security in the repo market - increased in the second half of 2011 for Italian government bonds. We assess the impact on specialness of the outright purchase program of the Eurosystem during the same period. Bonds bought by the Eurosystem had...
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aggregate risk …
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Shadow banks conduct credit intermediation without direct, explicit access to public sources of liquidity and credit guarantees. Shadow banks contributed to the credit boom in the early 2000s and collapsed during the financial crisis of 2007-09. We review the rapidly growing literature on shadow...
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focus on individual, rather than systemic, risk of financial institutions. Focusing on systemically important assets and … capable of inducing market discipline and mitigating moral hazard, but also capable of addressing the associated systemic risk …, for instance, due to the risk of fire sales of collateral assets. Furthermore, because of our focus on SIALs, our proposed …
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concentrates asset ownership with firms that have preferences to hold highly leveraged positions and risk default. The premium …
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This paper discusses several key issues regarding the current Great Crisis which spreads over two periods. The first includes the 2007-2009 subprime crisis in the US, while the second extended to a twin sovereign debt and banking crisis in Europe after 2010, and persists until now. At the core...
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higher default risk are more exposed to runs by collateral providers than to runs by cash lenders, who are completely …
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This paper uses new data to provide a comprehensive view of repo activity during the 2007-09 financial crisis for the first time. We show that activity declined much more in the bilateral segment of the market than in the tri-party segment. Surprisingly, we find that a large share of the decline...
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This project considers repo market stress in September 2019. First, I find that the multiple causes of that market disruption suggest the need for more comprehensive review of liquidity policy frameworks. I then review recent proposals to prevent future repo funding disruptions, evaluating them...
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