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The U.S. government uses its voting power to direct IMF funds to countries where U.S. banks stand to lose the most from sovereign default -- a de facto bailout. Consistent with this, the likelihood a defaulting sovereign is granted an IMF loan is increasing in U.S. banks' exposure to that...
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Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the …
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indicates that the reduction in bank lending during the crisis was at least partly caused by stricter bank screening and … monitoring: a wake-up call. -- bank lending ; financial crisis ; loan retention ; screening and monitoring ; syndication …
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develops a methodology to detect problems at the individual bank level in an effort to identify those firms with financial … facilitate bank monitoring tasks, as well as some disaggregated subcomponents that are intended to display the relative …
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This paper describes concepts and tools behind macroprudential monitoring, and the growing importance of macroprudential tools for assessing the stability of financial systems. This paper also employs a macroprudential approach in examining financial soundness and identifying its determinants....
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We show that market discipline, defined as the extent to which firm specific risk characteristics are re ected in market prices, eroded during the recent financial crisis in 2008. We design a novel test of changes in market discipline based on the relation between firm specific risk...
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This paper shows that banks overstate the value of distressed assets and their regulatory capital during the U.S. mortgage crisis. Banks' balance sheets overvalue real estate-related assets compared to the market value of these assets. Banks with large exposure to mortgage-backed securities also...
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This paper examines the impact of charter type, holding company structure, and measures of bank fragility on the … likelihood of a bank bailout or failure during the late 2000s financial crisis. The empirical results indicate that established … brokered deposits, and held a relatively large portfolio of real estate loans. In addition, bank failure was more likely for …
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equity ratio, loan quality and bank size are the main determinants of bank bailout involvement. However, the aided banks … sufficient to restore bank health …
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On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.
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