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Bank Rescues and Bailout Expectations: The Erosion of Market Discipline During the Financial Crisis
(2016-10-01)
We design a novel test for changes in market discipline based on the relation between firm-specific risk, credit spreads, and equity returns. We use our method to analyze the evolution of bailout expectations during the ...
The Political Economy of Bank Bailouts
(2016-04-14)
In this paper, we examine how the institutional design affects the outcome of bank bailout decisions. In the German savings bank sector, distress events can be resolved by local politicians or a state-level association. ...
A Stochastic Forward-Looking Model to Assess the Profitability and Solvency of European Insurers
(2016-11-01)
In this paper, we develop an analytical framework for conducting forward-looking assessments of profitability and solvency of the main euro area insurance sectors. We model the balance sheet of an insurance company ...
The Forward-looking Disclosures of Corporate Managers: Theory and Evidence
(2016-07-15)
We consider an infinitely repeated game in which a privately informed, long-lived manager raises funds from short-lived investors in order to finance a project. The manager can signal project quality to investors by making ...
Mortgage Supply and the US Housing Boom: The Role of the Community Reinvestment Act
(2016-10-30)
This paper studies the role of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in the US housing boom-bust cycle. I find that the enhancement in CRA enforcement in 1998 increased the growth rate of mortgage lending by CRA-regulated ...
Bank Response To Higher Capital Requirements: Evidence From A Quasi-Natural Experiment
(2016-12-07)
We study the impact of higher capital requirements on banks’ balance sheets and its transmission to the real economy. The 2011 EBA capital exercise is an almost ideal quasi-natural experiment to identify this impact with ...