Empirical Essays on Systemic Risk and Financial Markets During the Crisis
Author : Alexander Schmidt
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Page : 141 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2014
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Essays on Transparency, Systemic Risk, and Liquidity in Real Estate Markets
Author : Daniel Ruf
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2018
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This dissertation consists of three essays on transparency, systemic risk, and liquidity in real estate markets. The first essay proposes a benchmark portfolio that contains property markets with a higher level of pre-trade transparency to assess expected returns in opaque commercial real estate markets. We find empirical evidence of abnormal returns in opaque markets relative to the benchmark portfolio. Based on pre-trade transparency, we test for information-based co-movements between transparent and less transparent property markets. Revealed post-trade information of how changes in macroeconomic fundamentals affect the valuation of commercial real estate in transparent markets leads to spillover effects to less transparent markets. We also test for learning externalities from the benchmark portfolio to opaque markets. These externalities can be related to different learning-based investment strategies such as cultural familiarity or information advantages from specializing in opaque markets. The second essay analyzes systemic risk in financial center office markets. Based on the expected capital shortfall of financial institutions, we compute the total systemic risk in the banking sector of financial centers. We show that cross-sectional dependence and return co-movements among financial center office markets arise due to the systemic banking sector risk during financial turmoil periods. As crisis periods, we use the dotcom bubble burst in 2001 and the recent financial crisis 2007/2008. Exploiting spatial econometrics, we test for return co-movements among office markets during normal times as a placebo test and among counterfactual retail markets. We also show that the decline in office market returns during financial turmoil is larger in financial centers compared to non-financial centers. The last essay analyzes the impact of nearby located urban agglomeration centers on local rental housing market liquidity. The empirical.
Three Essays on Systemic Risk
Author : Sylvain Benoit
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2014
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Systemic risk has played a key role in the propagation of the last global financial crisis. A large number ofsystemic risk measures have been developed to quantify the contribution of a financial institution to thesystem-wide risk. However, numerous questions about their abilities to identify Systemically ImportantFinancial Institutions (SIFIs) have been raised since systemic risk has multiple facets, and some of themare difficult to gauge, such as the commonalities across financial institutions.The main goal of this dissertation in finance is thus (i) to propose an empirical solution to identifydomestic SIFIs, (ii) to compare theoretically and empirically different systemic risk measures, and (iii)to measure changes in banks' risk exposures.First, chapter 1 offers an adjustment of three market-based systemic risk measures, designed in a globalframework, to identify domestic SIFIs. Second, chapter 2 introduces a common framework in whichseveral systemic risk measures are expressed and compared. It is theoretically shown that those systemicrisk measures can be expressed as function of traditional risk measures. The empirical application confirmsthese findings and shows that these measures fall short in capturing the multifaceted nature of systemicrisk. Third, chapter 3 proposes the Factor Implied Risk Exposures (FIRE) methodology which breaksdown a change in risk disclosure into a market volatility component and a bank-specific risk exposurecomponent. This chapter empirically illustrates that changes in risk exposures are positively correlatedacross banks, which is consistent with banks exhibiting commonality in trading.
Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States
Author : George Soros
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1610391527
Book Description
Addresses the need for the United States to restructure the banking and financial system, anticipates the globalization of the crisis, and calls for international action.
Essays on Systemic Risk in Financial Markets
Author : Fei Wu
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2020
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Financial Crises Explanations, Types, and Implications
Author : Mr.Stijn Claessens
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475561008
Book Description
This paper reviews the literature on financial crises focusing on three specific aspects. First, what are the main factors explaining financial crises? Since many theories on the sources of financial crises highlight the importance of sharp fluctuations in asset and credit markets, the paper briefly reviews theoretical and empirical studies on developments in these markets around financial crises. Second, what are the major types of financial crises? The paper focuses on the main theoretical and empirical explanations of four types of financial crises—currency crises, sudden stops, debt crises, and banking crises—and presents a survey of the literature that attempts to identify these episodes. Third, what are the real and financial sector implications of crises? The paper briefly reviews the short- and medium-run implications of crises for the real economy and financial sector. It concludes with a summary of the main lessons from the literature and future research directions.
Essays in Empirical Financial Economics
Author : Jean-Noël Barrot
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2012
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This dissertation is made of four distinct chapters. In the first chapter, I consider an exogenous restriction on the ability of French trucking firms to extend payment terms to their clients. I find that they provide trade credit at the cost of lower investment, lower return on assets, and higher default risk. In the second chapter, I show that private equity funds with a longer horizon select younger companies at an earlier stage of their development. Companies which receive funding from funds with a longer horizon increase their patent stock significantly more than companies which receive funding from investors with a shorter horizon. The third chapter presents a joint work with Ron Kaniel and David Sraer. We use detailed brokerage account data to provide a quantitative exploration of the behavior of retail investors during the financial crisis of 2008. We show that investors who appear more sophisticated on these dimensions in the pre-crisis period were, in the post-crisis period, less likely to flee to safety, more likely to engage in liquidity provisions and to earn higher returns. In the fourth chapter, I develop the idea that households have an imprecise knowledge of their portfolio's exposure to systematic risk and that this leads them to make investment mistakes. This idea is tested in the context of the decision to actively trade rather than passively invest in the stock market.
Bank Size and Systemic Risk
Author : Mr.Luc Laeven
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1484363728
Book Description
The proposed SDN documents the evolution of bank size and activities over the past 20 years. It discusses whether this evolution can be explained by economies of scale or “too big to fail” subsidies. The paper then presents evidence on the extent to which bank size and market-based activities contribute to systemic risk. The paper concludes with policy messages in the area of capital regulation and activity restrictions to reduce the systemic risk posed by large banks. The analysis of the paper complements earlier Fund work, including SDN 13/04 and the recent GFSR chapter on “too big to fail” subsidies, and its policy message is in line with this earlier work.
Financial Crisis Management
Author : Christian Alexander Mecklenburg-Guzman
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3640988396
Book Description
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: Distinction, University of Warwick (School of Law), course: International Banking Regulation, language: English, abstract: The recent financial crisis of 2007-2009 (the crisis) has been dramatised as the worst crisis since the great de- pression in the 1930s. Prompt regulatory response was required in order to contain the spread of fear and stop the mistrust with the ultimate goal to restore the confidence into the financial institutions and markets as well as prevent the collapse of the real economy. Financial crises containment can be defined as the enhancement of “... soundness and stability of the banking ...” which is essential to “...ensure legal certainty and to restore confidence in financial markets” Regulators have a whole set of tools to respond to crises, using an existing regime and or implementing a special resolution regime. Latter has a broad span reaching from capital injections to expropriation. Undoubtedly, the measures raise legal questions regarding their raison d’être and liability of those exercising the measures. Moreover, the measures have individual merits and demerits varying in respect of their costs and perspective of the market participants. The purpose of this essay is to analyse these responses. Therefore, different measures will be identified and evaluated in light of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council’s common principles for action 5 and the Commission Communication of State Aid 6 which have been determined as representative guidelines for policy makers in drafting a response regime. It will be concluded that there is no clear cut answer to which are the most successful measures; nevertheless, there is empirical evidence of which are the most favoured responses by regulators. The measures will be in response to an acute crisis, ie the prevention and resolution of a crisis will not be treated in this essay. In addition, the responses will be limited to the European Union. The next chapter is dived in 5 parts exploring mechanisms to contain financial crises. It represents a sequence that has been observed in the recent crisis in Europe. Chapter 3 gives an outlook. The last chapter concludes.
Essays on the Banking Industry and the U.S. Economy
Author : Pallavi Choudhuri
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Page : 161 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Bank liquidity
ISBN : 9781321173857
Book Description
This dissertation consists of three essays on the banking industry. The first essay examines the role of securitization and its impact on cost efficiency, and investigates whether banks that securitized their assets to manage their liquidity needs achieved greater cost efficiency in the short run, and whether there was any incentive towards taking on excessive credit risk in the process. The analysis is carried out for commercial banks that securitized their assets during the period leading up to the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The results suggest that for banks that are exposed to higher risk from unused loan commitments, increased cost efficiency is associated with an increase in banks' ability to securitize loans, prompted by higher loan portfolio liquidity. In addition, improved cost efficiency is associated with higher credit risk exposure from asset securitization for very large banks, providing distorted economic incentive to increase asset risk. The banking industry experienced great turmoil during the recent financial crisis, with increases in solvency risk, coupled with liquidity risk that exacerbated under a severe economy-wide liquidity shock. The second essay explores the relationship between liquidity and insolvency in the framework of the FHLB advances program used by commercial banks between 2007 and 2010. While the FHLB system provided an important source of liquidity for its member banks, the results provide evidence that borrowing per asset is positively associated with increases in the Texas ratio, an early warning signal of default risk, raising questions about moral hazard incentives embedded in the system. The third essay explores the role played by banks in promoting technological innovation in the U.S. In particular, I examine whether changes in the banking industry following branch liberalization translated into a higher rate of innovative activity and the channels through which the finance-technology nexus takes place. The results show that while intrastate branch deregulation is negatively associated with technological innovation, the effect is positive after interstate branch deregulation through increased access to capital.
