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Luc Laeven
Researcher at European Central Bank
Publications - 360
Citations - 40776
Luc Laeven is an academic researcher from European Central Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Financial crisis & Deposit insurance. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 355 publications receiving 36916 citations. Previous affiliations of Luc Laeven include World Bank & Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Bank Leverage and Monetary Policy's Risk-Taking Channel: Evidence from the United States
TL;DR: The authors found that ex ante risk-taking by banks (measured by the risk rating of new loans) is negatively associated with increases in short-term interest rates, and this relationship is more pronounced in regions that are less in sync with the nationwide business cycle.
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How good is the market at assessing bank fragility? A horse race between different indicators
TL;DR: In this article, the performance of three sets of indicators of bank fragility that can be computed from publicly available information: accounting data, stock market prices, and credit ratings was explored for individual banks, active in the East Asian countries during the years 1996-1998.
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Bank Size, Capital, and Systemic Risk: Some International Evidence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the variation in the cross-section of standalone and systemic risk of large banks during the recent financial crisis to identify bank specific factors that determine risk, and found that systemic risk grows with bank size and is inversely related to bank capital.
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Systemic Banking Crises Database: An Update
TL;DR: This paper updated the widely used banking crisis database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent and ongoing crises, including updated information on policy responses and outcomes (i.e., fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt).
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Business environment and firm entry : Evidence from international data
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new firms and find that entry regulations hamper entry, especially in industries that naturally have high entry.