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Pollution Permits and Financing Costs

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract Effective environmental policy should consider how the financiers of polluting firms behave. We study phase III of the EU Emission Trading System. Loan spreads for cap‐and‐trade participants are a function of compliance costs, permit market features, and firms’ strategic actions.
FABIO ANTONIOU   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Empirical Analysis of Equity Default Swaps (I): Univariate Insights [PDF]

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The aim of this paper is to describe a new methodology to assess the risk of any Equity Default Swap (EDS). We show that as credit ratings can measure counter-party risk, it is technically possible to provide a quantitatively derived “through the cycle ...
Arnaud_de_Servigny, Norbert_Jobst
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Financial Fragility and the Fiscal Multiplier

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We show that undercapitalized banks with large holdings of government bonds subject to sovereign default risk lead to a new crowding‐out channel: deficit‐financed fiscal stimuli lead to higher bond yields, triggering capital losses for the banks. Banks then cut back loans, which reduces fiscal multipliers.
CHRISTIAAN VAN DER KWAAK   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Liquidity and Credit Risks in the Financial Crisis* [PDF]

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This paper develops a structured dynamic factor model for the spreads between London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and overnight index swap (OIS) rates for a panel of banks. Our model involves latent factors which relect liquidity and credit risk.
Deborah Gefang, Gary Koop, Simon Potter
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Banks of a Feather: The Informational Advantage of Being Alike

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract Banks lend more to banks that are similar to them. Using data from the German credit register and proprietary supervisory data on the quality of banks' loan portfolio, we show that a similar portfolio of the lending and borrowing bank helps to overcome information asymmetries in interbank markets.
PETER BEDNAREK   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Credit ratings and credit risk [PDF]

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This paper investigates the information in corporate credit ratings. We examine the extent to which firms' credit ratings measure raw probability of default as opposed to systematic risk of default, a firm's tendency to default in bad times. We find that
Jens Hilscher, Mungo Wilson
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Models in Decision‐Making Under Risk and Uncertainty

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper systematically compares dominant frameworks for modeling decision‐making under risk and uncertainty, evaluating their theoretical trade‐offs and practical relevance for economic research. We establish key criteria for model selection—including predictive accuracy, descriptive realism, computational tractability, and ecological ...
Martin Höppner
wiley   +1 more source

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