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Few financial variables are more fundamental than the "risk free" real long-term interest rate because it prices the terms of exchange over time. During the past 15 years, it has dropped from a range of 4 to 5% to a range of 0 to 2%. By late 2011, cyclical factors had driven it close to zero....
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CDS market often moves ahead of the bond market in price adjustment, particularly for US entities. Liquidity also matters …
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We examine the liquidity effects of the euro area sovereign debt crisis, including its effects on euro area banks as a … group, on intra-euro area financial flows, on the supply of and demand for collateral, and on international liquidity. The … deficit countries and its collateral policy. The euro crisis has also created international liquidity stresses. We find that …
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This paper studies the choice between building liquidity buffers and raising funding ex post, to deal with liquidity … shocks. We uncover the possibility of an inefficient liquidity squeeze equilibrium. Agents typically choose to build smaller … liquidity buffers when they expect cheap funding. However, when agents hold smaller liquidity buffers, they can raise less …
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This paper explores the pricing of debt in a financial system where the assets that borrowers hold to meet their obligations include claims against other borrowers. Assessing financial claims in a system context captures features that are missing in a partial equilibrium setting. It is possible...
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The recent financial crisis has triggered a major rethink of analytical approaches and policy towards financial stability. The crisis has encouraged a sharper focus on systemic risk, the inclusion of a financial sector in macroeconomic models, a shift from a microprudential to a macroprudential...
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This study outlines a methodology for mapping the increases in capital and liquidity requirements proposed under Basel …
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explains why liquidity cannot easily be apprehended through a single statistics, and asks whether liquidity should be regulated … containment. Finally, the paper takes a macroeconomic perspective, discusses shortages of aggregate liquidity and analyses how … market value accounting and capital adequacy should react to asset prices. It concludes with a topical form of liquidity …
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I explain the key failure mechanics of large dealer banks, and some policy implications. This is not a review of the financial crisis of 2007–2009. Systemic risk is considered only in passing. Both the financial crisis and the systemic importance of large dealer banks are nevertheless obvious...
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The unfolding financial turmoil in mature economies has prompted the official and private sectors to reconsider policies, business models and risk management practices. Regardless of its future evolution, it already threatens to become one of the defining economic moments of the 21st century....
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