IHEID Working Paper – Bank Ownership Around the World

Author(s):Ugo Panizza Date:March 2023 Abstract: This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in181 countries (59 low-income economies, 72 middle-income economies, and 50 high-income economies) over 1995-2020. I show that until 2010, there was a reduction instate-ownership of banks and an increase foreign ownership. However, the GlobalFinancial Crisis interrupted[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper – Less Bank Regulation, More Non-Bank Lending

Author(s):Mary Chen, Seung Jung Lee, Daniel Neuhann, and Farzad Saidi Date:March 2023 Abstract: Bank deregulation in the form of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act facilitated the entry of non-bank lenders into the market for syndicated loans during the pre-2008 credit boom. Institutional investors disproportionately purchase tranches of loans originated by universal banks able to[…]

CEPR Discussion Paper – Stressed Banks? Evidence from the Largest-Ever Supervisory Exercise

Author(s):Puriya Abbassi, Rajkamal Iyer, José-Luis Peydró, and Paul Soto Date:March 2023 Abstract: We study short-term and medium-term changes in bank risk-taking as a result of supervision, and the associated real effects. For identification, we exploit the European Central Bank’s asset-quality- review (AQR) in conjunction with security and credit registers. After the AQR announcement, reviewed banks[…]

NBER Working Paper – Global Risk, Non-Bank Financial Intermediation, and Emerging Market Vulnerabilities

Author(s):Anusha Chari Date:April 2023 Abstract: Over the last two decades, the unprecedented increase in non-bank financial intermediation, particularly open-end mutual funds and ETFs, accounts for nearly half of the external financing flows to emerging markets exceeding cross-border lending by global banks. Evidence suggests that investment fund flows enhance risk-sharing across borders and provide emerging markets[…]

NBER Working Paper – Climate Stress Testing

Author(s):Viral V. Acharya, Richard Berner, Robert F. Engle III, Hyeyoon Jung, Johannes Stroebel, Xuran Zeng & Yihao Zhao Date:April 2023 Abstract: We explore the design of climate stress tests to assess and manage macro-prudential risks from climate change in the financial sector. We review the climate stress scenarios currently employed by regulators, highlighting the need[…]

ECB Working Paper – Do non-banks need access to the lender of last resort? Evidence from fund runs

Author(s):Johannes Breckenfelder, Marie Hoerova Date:April 2023 Abstract: Are central bank tools effective in reaching non-banks with no access to the lender-of-last-resort facilities? Using runs on mutual funds in March 2020 as a laboratory, weshow that, following the announcement of large-scale purchases, funds with higher exante shares of assets eligible for central bank purchases saw their[…]

CGD Working Paper – Regulatory Arbitrage and Loan Location Decisions by Multinational Banks

Author(s):Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Balint L. Horvath, Harry Huizinga Date:April 2023 Abstract: This paper examines the impact of international differences in capital regulation on multinationalbanks’ loan origination location decisions. International loan location decisions represent a keybanking margin that has previously not been examined in the literature on regulatory arbitrage bybanks. Our estimation relies on within-loan contribution variation[…]

Kiel Working Papers – China as an International Lender of Last Resort

Author(s):Sebastian Horn, Christoph Trebesch Date:March 2023 Abstract: This paper shows that China has launched a new global system for cross-border rescue lending to countries in debt distress. We build the first comprehensive dataset on China’s overseas bailouts between 2000 and 2021 and provide new insights into China’s growing role in the global financial system. A[…]