Author(s): Isabella Mueller, Eleonora Sfrappini Date: June 2022 Abstract: We identify the effect of climate change-related regulatory risks on credit reallocation. Our evidence suggests that effects depend borrower’s region. Following an increase in salience of regulatory risks, banks reallocate credit to US firms that could be negatively impacted by regulatory interventions. Conversely, in Europe, banks[…]
Author(s): William F. Bassett and David E. Rappoport Date: May 2022 Abstract: The use of stress testing for macroprudential objectives is advanced by modeling spillovers within the financial sector or between the real and financial sectors. In this chapter, we discuss several macroprudential elements that capture these spillovers and how they might be added to[…]
Author(s): Priyank Gandhi and Amiyatosh Purnanandam Date: June 2022 Abstract: We show that the U.S. commercial banks have become increasingly similar in their risk exposure after the global financial crisis. Pairwise correlation in bank equity returns increased threefold after the enactment of annual stress tests under the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA). Non-financials and non-bank financial firms[…]
Author(s): Antonis Kotidis and Stacey L. Schreft Date: May 2022 Abstract: This paper studies the effects of a unique multi-day cyberattack on a technology service provider (TSP). Using several confidential daily datasets, we identify and quantify first- and second-round effects of the event. For banks using relevant services of the TSP, the attack impaired their[…]
Author(s): Zafer Kanik Date: May 2022 Abstract: This paper revisits financial networks in a model of counterparty exposures, mandatory bail-ins and complementary bailouts. Under mandatory bail-ins, the network’s role is reshaped and beyond its previous contagion-related role, because counterparty obligations, in the first place, are used for bail-ins against idiosyncratic failures. Di- versification faces a[…]
Author(s): Leonardo Martinez, Francisco Roch, Francisco Roldán, Jeromin Zettelmeyer Date: June 2022 Abstract: This paper surveys the literature on sovereign debt from the perspective of understanding how sovereign debt differs from privately issue debt, and why sovereign debt is deemed safe in some countries but risky in others. The answers relate to the unique power of the sovereign.[…]
Author(s): Carlo Altavilla, Miguel Boucinha, Lorenzo Burlon, Mariassunta Giannetti, Julian Schumacher Date: May 2022 Abstract: Exploiting the introduction of the ECB’s tiering system for remunerating excess reserve holdings, we document the importance of the access to the money market for bank lending. We show that the two-tier system produced positive wealth effects for banks with[…]
Author(s): Xiang Fang, Bryan Hardy, Karen K Lewis Date: May 2022 Abstract: This paper studies the impact of investor composition on the sovereign debt market. We construct an aggregate data set of sovereign debt holdings by foreign and domestic bank, non-bank private, and official investors for 95 countries over twenty years. We find that private[…]
Author(s): Raphael Auer, Marc Farag, Ulf Lewrick, Lovrenc Orazem and Markus Zoss Date: May 2022 Abstract: The phenomenal growth of cryptocurrencies raises important questions about their footprint on the financial system. What role are traditional financial intermediaries playing in cryptocurrency markets and what drives their engagement? Are new nodes emerging? We help answer these questions[…]
Author(s): Javier Bianchi and Louphou Coulibaly Date: May 2022 Abstract: This paper studies the transmission channels of monetary and macroprudential policies in an open economy framework and evaluates the normative implications for international spillovers and global welfare. An analytical decomposition uncovers the prominent role of expenditure switching for monetary policy, while macroprudential policy operates primarily[…]