Essays in financial intermediation
Financial intermediation helps the economy allocate capital, presumably, in an efficient, safe and rational way (Manove and Padilla, 1999; Coval and Thakor, 2005). This dissertation studies if financial intermediaries behave so. Chapter 1 finds inefficiencies. I use loan-level data and bank closures...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/670188 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670188 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Financial intermediation Intermediació financera 33 |
| Sumario: | Financial intermediation helps the economy allocate capital, presumably, in an efficient, safe and rational way (Manove and Padilla, 1999; Coval and Thakor, 2005). This dissertation studies if financial intermediaries behave so. Chapter 1 finds inefficiencies. I use loan-level data and bank closures to demonstrate that a distressed bank had overcharged its good-quality customers, and since they had paid these rents, switching must have been even costlier. This serves as a novel estimate of firms’ switching costs and a novel identification of the hold-up problem. In Chapter 2, I match German banks’ FX-denominated balance sheet exposures with transaction-level derivative exposures, and, for the first time, use such detailed data to study banks’ FX risk management. I find limited evidence of hedging, which suggests insufficient risk management. In Chapter 3, I use millisecond-stamped transaction-level stock trading data to show, for the first time, that algorithms trade stocks more rationally than human traders. |
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