Essays on banking and financial instability

This thesis focuses on the issue of bank funding structure and its implications for financial instability. The first chapter investigates how the dynamic interaction between the regulator and banks can endogenously lead to financial instability and generate boom-bust cycles. The model is able to captur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Wei, Jianxing
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/659082
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/659082
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fiancial instability
Inestabilitat financera
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Sumario:This thesis focuses on the issue of bank funding structure and its implications for financial instability. The first chapter investigates how the dynamic interaction between the regulator and banks can endogenously lead to financial instability and generate boom-bust cycles. The model is able to capture pro-cyclical bank leverage, asymmetric credit cycles, and the Minsky moment in a unified framework. The second chapter provides a simple theoretical model to understand bank asset encumbrance and its implications for financial stability. I show that the effect of encumbrance depends on rates of over-collateralization faced by the banks, and I also demonstrate empirical evidence consistent with the predictions of the model. The third chapter revisits a classical issue in the banking literature: would loan sales undermine banks’ special role of information production? I highlight the role of banks’ insolvency risk and find that loan sales may improve, rather than weaken, banks’ screening incentives.