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We analyse micro data on Irish mortgages and distressed households' balance sheets in the last decade to assess the debt resolution process in the Irish mortgage market in the lead up to the COVID-19 shock. We highlight the widespread engagement of Irish borrowers with debt resolution mechanisms...
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Regulation of Money Market Funds (MMFs) in the EU requires some categories of MMFs to consider applying liquidity … management tools if they breach a minimum 'weekly' liquidity requirement. Anticipation of the application of such tools is a … liquidity thresholds explains differences in redemptions both at the start of the COVID-19 crisis and in the following months …
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of a freeze, inducing firms to hoard even more liquid assets. Liquidity panics provide a new rationale for stricter … liquidity requirements, as this policy alleviates the informational frictions in the banking sector and paradoxically can end up …
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We study the design of lender of last resort interventions and show that the provision of long-term liquidity …-term domestic government bonds that could be pledged to obtain central bank liquidity. This "collateral trade" effect is large, as …
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strong link is present between central bank liquidity support and sovereign holdings, opportunistic strategies or reach … advantage of their higher risk-bearing capacity to gain exposure (via central bank liquidity) to the set of riskier sovereign …
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This paper reconsiders the role of macroeconomic shocks and policies in determining the Great Recession and the subsequent recovery in the US. The Great Recession was mainly caused by a large demand shock and by the ZLB on the interest rate policy. In contrast with previous findings, the...
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I estimate the comparative causal effects of monetary policy "leaning against the wind" (LAW) and macroprudential policy on bank-level lending and leverage by drawing on a single natural experiment. In 1920, when U.S. monetary policy was still decentralized, four Federal Reserve Banks...
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This paper develops a theory of the secondary market trading of financial securitities in which endogenous asset market dynamics generate periods of growing aggregate credit volumes and falling credit standards even in the absence of "financial shocks." Falling credit standards in turn lead to...
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