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Banks as Lenders of First Resort: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis
In March 2020, banks faced the largest increase in liquidity demands ever observed. Firms drew funds on a massive scale from preexisting credit lines in anticipation of cash flow and financial disruptions stemming from the advent of the COVID-19 crisis ...
Lei Li, Philip E. Strahan, Song Zhang
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Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks
This paper argues that the extent of financial contagion exhibits a form of phase transition: as long as the magnitude of negative shocks affecting financial institutions are sufficiently small, a more densely connected financial network (corresponding ...
Daron Acemoglu +2 more
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Digital financing for SMEs' recovery in the post-COVID era: A bibliometric review
The restrictions that have been implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the growing importance of digital financing. While traditional banking services have been limited by social distancing, reduced work hours, and lockdowns, digital ...
Alfonso Pellegrino, M. Abé
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Do Municipal Bond Investors Pay a Convenience Premium to Avoid Taxes?
We study the valuation of state-issued tax-exempt municipal bonds and find that there are significant convenience premia in their prices. These premia parallel those identified in Treasury markets.
Matthias Fleckenstein, F. Longstaff
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Non-Performing Loans: What Matters in Addition to the Economic Cycle?
Using a novel panel data set we study the macroeconomic determinants of nonperforming loans (NPLs) across 75 countries during the past decade. According to our dynamic panel estimates, the following variables are found to significantly affect NPL ratios:
Roland Beck, P. Jakubik, Anamaria Piloiu
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The Invisible Hand of the Government: 'Moral Suasion' During the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Using proprietary data on banks’ monthly securities holdings, we show that during the European sovereign debt crisis, domestic banks in fiscally stressed countries were considerably more likely than foreign banks to increase their holdings of domestic ...
S. Ongena, A. Popov, Neeltje van Horen
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Does Regulatory Jurisdiction Affect the Quality of Investment-Adviser Regulation?
The Dodd-Frank Act shifted regulatory jurisdiction over “ midsize” investment advisers from the SEC to state-securities regulators. Client complaints against midsize advisers increased relative to those continuing under SEC oversight by 30 to 40 percent ...
Ben Charoenwong +2 more
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A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk
Systemic risk arises when shocks lead to states where a disruption in financial intermediation adversely affects the economy and feeds back into further disrupting financial intermediation.
Zhiguo He, A. Krishnamurthy
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Are Fund Managers Rewarded for Taking Cyclical Risks?
The investment fund sector has expanded dramatically since the crisis of 2008-2009. As the sector grows, so do the implications of its risk-taking for the wider financial system and real economy.
E. Ryan
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Non-dilutive CoCo Bonds: A Necessary Evil?
Banks predominantly issue nondilutive CoCos, contrary to the suggestion that CoCos should be dilutive to reduce risk-taking. In an agency model of two moral hazards, we show that, although dilutive CoCos deter ex ante risk-taking and prevent banks from
Andrea Gamba, Yanxiong Gong, K. Ma
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