Bundesbank paper tracks causes of financial crisis balance sheet contraction

Behaviour and structure important in assessing resilience

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The Deutsche Bundesbank

Banks' pre-crisis characteristics and behaviour informed their ability to weather the crisis, a discussion paper published today (July 20) by the Deutsche Bundesbank finds.

Multinational banks' deleveraging in the crisis driven by pre-crisis characteristics and behavior, by Rainer Frey, emphasises the importance of studying variables over time, rather than a snapshot, when assessing a bank's resilience. Frey finds high average earnings in the three years before the crisis were a sign of

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