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the value of their housing stock. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the role of collateralized household debt in …
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structure. In more competitive markets, reducing the relative attractiveness of the offline option involves the risk of losing … markets and for more dominant banks. We find support for the predictions of the model using a panel of household survey data …
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risk taking and real economic activity. First, we analyze how changes in funding affect the supply of bank loans. We then … liquidity risk by supplying long-term loans with short-term funding. We also find that mortgage lending by banks relying more on …
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household risk management: income volatility reduces the take-out of ARMs, while increasing duration and relative size of the …Mortgages constitute the largest part of household debt. An essential choice when taking out a mortgage is between …-country study has analyzed what determines household demand for mortgage types, a task that this paper takes up using new data for …
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Recent events in financial markets have underlined the importance of analyzing the link between the financial health of banks and real economic activity. This paper contributes to this analysis by constructing a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the balance sheet of banks affects the...
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Evidence suggests that banks, like firms, face financial frictions when raising funds. The authors develop a quantitative, monetary business cycle model in which agency problems affect both the relationship between banks and firms and the relationship between banks and their depositors. As a...
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This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and economic cycles and examines its interaction with monetary policy. The framework used is a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with banks and bank capital, in which...
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The authors present a detailed discussion of the Bank of Canada's framework for the implementation of monetary policy. As background, they provide a brief overview of the financial system in Canada, including a discussion of the financial services industry and the money market. Key features of...
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We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because nominal prices are observed with delay as in Jovanovic & Ueda (1997). More constrained firms sign contracts that are less indexed to the nominal price and, as a result, their...
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