Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Stability written by Michael Abendschein and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Stability Transparency and the Macroeconomy written by Nicole Allenspach and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on the Consequences of Financial Stability Regulation written by Olga Briukhova and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Macroeconomic and Financial Stability written by Mei Li and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Banks Financial Stability written by Saad Abu-Alim and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hedge Funds and Financial Stability written by Benjamin Klaus and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Fiscal Stress and Financial Stability in State Government Finance written by James Bryan Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Stability written by Jean Armand Gnagne and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this thesis is on financial stability. More specifically, we investigate different issues related to the monitoring and forecasting of important underlying systemic financial vulnerabilities. We develop various econometric models aimed at providing a better assessment and early insights about the build-up of financial imbalances. Throughout this work, we consider complementary measures of financial (in)stability endowing hence the regulatory authorities with a deeper toolkit for achieving and maintaining financial stability. In the first Chapter, we apply a logit model to identify important determinants of financial crises. Alongwiththetraditionalexplanatoryvariablessuggestedintheliterature, weconsider a measure of bid-ask spreads in the financial markets of each country as a proxy for the likely effect of a Securities Transaction Tax (STT) on transaction costs. One key contribution of this Chapter is to study the impact that a harmonized, area- wide tax, often referred to as Tobin Tax would have on the stability of financial markets. Our results confirm important findingsuncoveredintheliterature,butalsoindicatethathighertransactioncostsaregenerally associated with a higher risk of crisis. We document the robustness of this key result to possible endogeneity effects and to the 2008−2009 global crisis episode. To the extent that a widely-based STT would increase transaction costs, our results therefore suggest that the establishment of this tax could increase the risk of financial crises. In the second Chapter, we assess the build-up of financial imbalances in a data-rich environment. Concretely, we concentrate on one key dimension of a sound financial system by monitoring and forecasting the monthly aggregate commercial bank failures in the United States. We extract key sectoral predictors from a large set of macro-financial variables and incorporate them in a hurdle negative binomial model to predict the number of monthly commercial bank failures. We find a strong and robust relationship between the housing industry and bank failures. This evidence suggests that housing industry plays a key role in the buildup of vulnerability in the banking sector. Different specifications of our model confirm the robustness of our results. In the third Chapter, we focus on the modeling of non-performing loans (NPLs), one other dimension along with, financial vulnerabilities are scrutinized. We apply different models proposed in the recent literature for fitting and forecasting U.S. banks non-performing loans (NPLs). We compare the performance of these models to those of similar models in which we replace traditional explanatory variables by key sectoral predictors all extracted from the large set of potential U.S. macro-financial variables. We uncover that the latent-componentbased models all outperform the traditional models, suggesting then that practitioners and researchers could consider latent factors in their modeling of NPLs. Moreover, we also confirm that the housing sector greatly impacts the evolution of non-performing loans over time.

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Instability of Emerging Stock Markets written by Thi Bich Ngoc Tran and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Markets and Monetary Policy written by Abeba Siraj Mussa and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global financial crisis triggered by fallout form the sub-prime mortgage market in the U.S. has led economists to focus attention on the role of monetary policy in the crisis. The question of how monetary policy affects the financial sector is the key to the current debate over the role financial stability should play in the monetary policy decisions. As a contribution to this debate, my dissertation examines the link between monetary policy and three main financial sectors-the banking sector, the stock market, anf the housing market. The first essay examines whether the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) responded to changes in equity prices during the period 1966-2009. I distinguish the indirect response, where the FOMC reacts to equity prices only when equity prices affect its target variables, from the direct response, where the FOMC reacts to equity prices directly regardless of their effects on the target variables. In addition, the paper models the Federal Reserve's reaction function as state dependent, hypothesizing that the FOMC may respond to changes in asset prices asymmetrically during different states of the economy. The results show that the FOMC did respond directly to equity price changes when asset prices were falling. During non-bust periods, the FOMC did not respond directly to equity prices. It used information on equity prices to forecast target variables. The second essay investigates the effect of expansionary and contractionary monetary policy on the risk taking behavior of low-capital and high-capital banks. Using quarterly data on federally insured banks spanning the period from 1991 to 2010, the paper shows that expansionary policy caused high capital banks to take more risk. Capital constrained banks were not significantly affected by expansionary monetary policy. Contractionary monetary policy, however, is not effective in affecting the risk-taking behavior of both capital-constrained and unconstrained banks. The paper, therefore, confirms the hypothesis that expansionary policy is more effective in encouraging capital unconstrained banks to invest more in risky assets. The third essay examines the role of monetary policy on housing bubbles in the last three decades. A spatial dynamic model is used to explicity account for spatial cross-section dependence in the data. Using quarterly panel data on 48 contiguous U.S. states and the District of Columbia, the paper discovers that the housing bubbles across the U.S. are mainly driven by the local or state specific factors during the period 1976-2000. However, the prolonged low interest rate since the 2001 recession contributed to the run-up in house prices acrsss states.

Download or read book Financial Innovation Globalization and Instability written by Edwin T. Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Macroprudential Policy written by Alejandro Buesa Olavarrieta and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This doctoral thesis gathers three studies on different aspects of macroprudential policy and financial stability. The research questions featured in each of its parts are to be seen as complementary: one chapter concentrates on mortgage credit markets, another one explores the business decisions of banking institutions, while the remaining one considers the potential international implications of borrower-based measures.The first paper introduces a simplified picture of the mortgage credit market and itsbehaviour under regulatory constraints related to borrower-based macroprudential policies. More precisely, the chapter presents an assessment of the effects of loan-to-value (LTV) ratiocaps for housing mortgages using an agent-based model. Sellers, buyers and banks interact within a computational framework that enables the application of LTV caps to a one-stephousing market. The initial exercise, which relies upon simulated distributions of buyers and sellers, is followed by a more realistic setup calibrated through actual European data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. In both cases, the application of an LTV cap results in a modified distribution of buyers along property values, bidding prices and properties sold, depending on the shape of the probability distributions of the LTV ratio, wealth and debt-to- income ratios considered. The results are of similar magnitude to other studies in the literature embodying other analytical approaches and suggest that this methodology can potentially be used to gauge the impact of common macroprudential measures...

Download or read book Financial Market Instability written by Michael Manz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions written by Martin Shubik and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in a three-volume exposition of Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics" explores a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. This is the first volume in a three-volume exposition of Martin Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics"--a term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form. The approach involves a search for minimal financial institutions that appear as a logical, technological, and institutional necessity, as part of the "rules of the game." Money and financial institutions are assumed to be the basic elements of the network that transmits the sociopolitical imperatives to the economy. Volume 1 deals with a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. Volume 2 explores the new economic features that arise when we consider multi-period finite and infinite horizon economies. Volume 3 will consider the specific role of financial institutions and government, and formulate the economic financial control problem linking micro- and macroeconomics.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Non bank Credit Activity written by Karl David Boulware and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is composed of three essays that measure the impact of monetary policy on non-bank credit activity by issuer, composition, and duration. The first essay measures the dynamic impact of monetary policy on gross repurchase agreement activity of primary government dealers of the Federal Reserve System. The second essay measures the dynamic impact of monetary policy on commercial paper activity. The third essay measures the impact of monetary policy on issuers of asset-backed securities. In the first essay, we find a positive shock to the federal funds rate significantly affects the level of credit activity. In particular, repo arrangements longer than a day display persistent declines. By comparison, overnight financing increases after a delay. This implies that contractionary monetary policy shocks lead to maturity substitution in the repo market. Our findings show that credit activity in the repo market is more sensitive to monetary policy than previously reported in the literature. In the second essay, our measure of contractionary monetary policy shocks corresponds to a sharp decline in money market mutual fund assets. Though there is an increase in aggregate commercial paper volumes, the impact of monetary policy is stronger for issuers with less liquid balance sheets. Specifically, issuers of asset-backed paper and issuers with second tier credit ratings. Furthermore, there is evidence of a broad substitution towards shorter maturities, in particular for asset backed and nonfinancial paper. In the final essay, we find that an anticipated increase in the target for the federal funds rate impacts the behavior of ABS issuers. In particular, we find commercial paper issuance rises while bond issuance falls. Consequently, our results support the existence of a liquidity risk channel for monetary policy operating through the total supply of non-bank credit activity. In this manner, our findings indicate the monetary transmission mechanism contributes to systemic risk in the shadow banking system through rollover risk. As a result, non-bank credit activity is an important component of the relationship between monetary policy and financial stability.

Download or read book Financial Stability in New Zealand written by Caitlin Davies and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis, I explore the past, present, and future of New Zealand's financial stability through the estimation of New Zealand's medium-term financial cycle; a close examination of New Zealand's 1984 currency crisis; and a theoretical consideration of the interaction of monetary policy and macro-prudential policy in pursuit of financial stability outcomes. My results suggest that the nature of the New Zealand financial cycle changed fundamentally after the liberalising reforms of the mid-1980s, leading to greater synchronisation with international capital markets; that the 1984 currency crisis was the result of self-fulfilling market expectations, coordinated by the announcement of a snap election; and that using monetary policy to address financial stability (a policy approach also known as "leaning against the wind") would only be appropriate if the macro-prudential regulator had a low level of risk-sensitivity, and if the macro-prudential instrument is well-tested and known to be effective over the financial stability objective.

Download or read book Three Essays in International Finance written by Byong-Ju Lee and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three essays on international finance. The first essay is "Exchange rates and Fundamentals". A new open interest rate parity condition that takes account of economic fundamentals is developed from stochastic discount factors (SDFs) of two countries. Through this parity condition, business cycles or fundamentals are linked to exchange rates. Key empirical findings from this parity condition are as follows. First, this model beats the random walk hypothesis: economic fundamentals explain exchange rate movements for high interest rate currencies. Exchange rates of low interest rate currencies act like a random walk because they are less correlated with fundamentals owing to their low risk. For example, U.S. business cycles explain the direction of changes in exchange rates against the dollar. The same thing is true for Japan. Second, this model resolves the forward premium puzzle: the forward premium puzzle is not a general characteristic as regarded in previous studies. It happens when the risk awareness of investors is low, during economic expansions and for low risk currencies. The second essay is "Carry Trade and Global Financial Instability". Carry trade, an opportunistic investment strategy that takes advantage of interest rate differential across countries, is identified the cause of the large-scale depreciations of peripheral currencies in the later half of 2008. A simultaneous equations model, which is derived from a conceptual partial equilibrium model for a local foreign exchange market, is estimated from a cross-sectional sample. The results suggest that the larger appreciation of the yen than the dollar was brought about by a lack of the local supply of the yen rather than a more severe crunch of yen credits. The third essay is "The Economic Origin of Letters of Credit". This essay discusses the economic origin of letters of credit, an instrument widely used in international trade. A game theoretical analysis shows that letters of credit improve efficiency in trade settlements, increasing returns in trade. A few notable facts on letters of credit are discussed. First, the new institution is adopted by merchant banks to maximize their profits and in the process, an improvement in efficiency of international transactions is obtained. Second, the organization established by the legacy institution, bills of exchange, played a critical role in adopting the new institution. Third, the legal enforcement is not essential in this economic institution. Finally, two drivers are identified that improve efficiency of transactions: concentration and projection.