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A number of OECD countries experienced an environment of low interest rates and a rapid increase in housing market activity during the last decade. Previous work suggests three potential explanations for these events: expansionary monetary policy, capital inflows due to a global savings glut and...
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Does capital flow from rich to poor countries? We revisit the Lucas paradox and ask whether it results from a lack of capital account openness. We find that, when accounting for such openness, the prediction of neoclassical theory is empirically confirmed: among financially open economies,...
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This paper studies the determinants of capital flows defined as gross external bond and syndicated loan issuance to a group of emerging market economies (EMEs) since 1992. We follow the previous literature by estimating an explicit disequilibrium demand and supply model of capital flows using...
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component of capital flows: global liquidity, broadly understood as a proxy for the international supply of credit. We identify … introduced by Stock and Watson and Mertens and Ravn. We find that in emerging markets a global liquidity shock has a much …
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We describe methods for measuring liquidity provision that can be applied to real-time gross settlement payment systems …. Using data from CHAPS, the UK large-value payment system, we find that smaller banks tend to provide more liquidity than … larger banks, relative to their payment flows. We use a Gini coefficient to measure these variations in liquidity provision …
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day, banks choose how much costly liquidity to allocate to the settlement process. Then, they use it to execute an … exogenous, random stream of payment orders. If a bank's liquidity stock is depleted, payments are queued until new liquidity … arrives from other banks, imposing costs on the delaying bank. The paper studies the equilibrium level of liquidity posted in …
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liquidity insurance schemes, public capital injections, and nationalisations. We use bank-level data spanning all British and …
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liquidity, price discovery and excess volatility. For that, we use a unique transactions data set for four UK stocks, over the … trading behaviour of individual HFTs. We first find that HFTs differ significantly from each other in terms of liquidity … provision: while some HFTs mostly consume liquidity (ie trade more ‘aggressively’) by primarily executing trades via market …
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