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  "title": "Bank Funding Structures and Risk: Evidence From the Global Financial Crisis",
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  "summary": "This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and Europe during 2001?09.",
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      "content": "- The paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies the implications for financial stability using a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and Europe during 2001?09.\n- Banks with weaker structural liquidity in the pre-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward.\n- Banks with higher leverage in the pre-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward.\n- The likelihood of bank failure increases with bank risk-taking.\n- In the cross-section:\n  - Smaller domestically-oriented banks were relatively more vulnerable to liquidity risk.\n  - Large cross-border banks were more susceptible to solvency risk due to excessive leverage.\n- Macroeconomic and monetary conditions are related with the likelihood of bank failure."
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      "content": "- The results support the proposed Basel III regulations on structural liquidity and leverage.\n- The evidence suggests emphasis should be placed on leverage regulations, particularly for systemically-important institutions.\n- The link between macroeconomic and monetary conditions and bank failure likelihood provides a case for the introduction of a macro-prudential approach to banking regulation."
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      "content": "- Dataset covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and Europe during 2001?09.\n- The study focuses on evolution of funding structures, structural liquidity, leverage, and bank risk-taking as predictors of failure.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp1229\n  - wp1229 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp1229 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/bank-funding-structures-and-risk-evidence-from-the-global-financial-crisis-25676"
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    "Authors: Pablo Federico, Francisco F. Vazquez",
    "Published: January 1, 2012",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781463933142.001",
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    "The likelihood of bank failure increases with bank risk-taking.",
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    "The results support the proposed Basel III regulations on structural liquidity and leverage.",
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    "The link between macroeconomic and monetary conditions and bank failure likelihood provides a case for the introduction of a macro-prudential approach to banking regulation.",
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