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Financial Statement Readability and Firm Debt Choice
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Examining more than 16,000 firm‐year observations in the United States, we provide novel evidence showing that higher financial statement readability leads to a decrease in information asymmetry and the need for external monitoring, thereby reducing the reliance on bank debt relative to public debt.
Wajih Abbassi +3 more
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Market Evaluations of Banking Fragility in Japan: Japan Premium, Stock Prices, and Credit Derivatives [PDF]
This paper investigates movements of market indicators of banking fragility, namely, Japan premium, stock prices, and credit derivative spreads of Japanese banks.
Kimie Harada, Takatoshi Ito
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Geopolitical Risk and Domestic Bank Deposits
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the relationship between global geopolitical risk and bank deposit flows across a wide panel of European countries. Motivated by the pivotal role of deposit stability for financial intermediation and systemic resilience, we explore whether geopolitical shocks alter depositors’ portfolio choices.
Dimitris Anastasiou +3 more
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The pricing of correlated default risk: evidence from the credit derivatives market [PDF]
In order to analyze the pricing of portfolio credit risk – as revealed by tranche spreads of a popular credit default swap (CDS) index – we extract risk-neutral probabilities of default (PDs) and physical asset return correlations from single-name CDS ...
Tarashev, Nikola A., Zhu, Haibin
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Testing for Contagion in International Financial Markets: To See More, Go Higher
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Traditional measures of financial contagion rely on correlation shifts, overlooking higher moments such as skewness and kurtosis. We examine contagion during two major financial crises, incorporating lower‐ and higher‐moment measures. We analyze stock market returns from 22 major markets at different frequencies, offering a global perspective ...
Simeon Coleman, Vitor Leone
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
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The Effects of Regulatory Office Closures on Bank Behavior
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate if the decentralized structure of regulatory office networks influences supervisory outcomes and bank behavior. Following the closure of an office, banks previously supervised by that office increase their lending and risk‐taking.
IVAN LIM, JENS HAGENDORFF, SETH ARMITAGE
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Systematic credit risk: CDX index correlation and extreme dependence. [PDF]
Dependence is an important issue in credit risk portfolio modeling and pricing. We discuss a straightforward common factor model of credit risk dependence, which is motivated by intensity models such as Duffie and Singleton (1998), among others.
Aboura, Sofiane, Wagner, Niklas
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Hampered Monetary Policy Transmission ‐ A Supply‐Side Story?
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract This paper shows that the supply side of credit is a major factor for hampered monetary policy transmission in monopolistic banking markets. Our stress test data containing projected interest rates of all 1,555 small and medium‐sized banks in Germany under two hypothetical scenarios provide a clear way to partial out demand shocks that are ...
LOTTA HECKMANN‐DRAISBACH, JULIA HARDT
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Regimes in CDS Spreads: A Markov Switching Model of iTraxx Europe Indices [PDF]
This paper investigates the determinants of the iTraxx CDS Europe indices, finding strong evidence that they are regime dependent. During volatile periods credit spreads become highly sensitive to stock volatility and more sensitive to this than to stock
Andreas Kaeck, Carol Alexander
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