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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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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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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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This paper explores the evolving relationship between central banks and governments in the European monetary unification process. In particular, it focuses on the institution-building phase (setting up of the ECB) and the monetary and macro-economic policy mix within EMU. I attribute the...
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The governance of central banks has two dimensions: corporate governance and public governance. Public governance is an institutional framework whereby the general public governs a central bank by and through the legislative and executive bodies in a country. This paper argues that the...
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With the insight of 130 years of history, this paper tries to answer three questions: how did changing international monetary and financial conditions shape the targets and tools of central bank cooperation? What factors influenced its intensity? Did a structured organisation, such as the BIS,...
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Central bank cooperation depends on a few crucial parameters: the extent to which central bankers agree on theory (end means relationships); the extent to which they can agree on goals (social purpose); the capacity (technical and institutional) to achieve their collective goals; and whether the...
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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 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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This study outlines a methodology for mapping the increases in capital and liquidity requirements proposed under Basel …
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