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We analyze the impact of non-compliance with a requirement similar to the Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratio and its … non-compliance with a liquidity requirement causes banks to pay and charge higher interest rates as well as to increase … be affected by the requirement. While non-compliance with a liquidity requirement does not seem to directly affect …
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During the recent financial crisis, central banks have provided liquidity and governments have set up rescue programmes … bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity and monitors too little. A … central bank can alleviate the liquidity problem, but induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce an additional authority …
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We study the determinants of sovereign bond spreads in the euro area since the introduction of the euro. We show that an aggregate risk factor is a main driver of spreads. This factor also plays an important indirect role for risk spreads through its interaction with the size and structure of...
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We study the determinants of euro area sovereign bond spreads since the introduction of the euro. An aggregate risk factor is a main driver of spreads, both directly and indirectly by interacting with the size and structure of national banking sectors. When aggregate risk increases, countries...
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banks have provided liquidity and ministries of finance have set up rescue programmes to restore confidence and stability …. Using a model of a systemic bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity … and takes excessive risk compared to the social optimum. A Lender of Last Resort can alleviate the liquidity problem, but …
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to liquidity assistance as a solution to forbearance. Faced with a bank that chooses capital and liquidity, the … institution providing liquidity assistance can commit to a mixed strategy: never bailing out is too costly and therefore not … credible, while always bailing out causes moral hazard. In equilibrium, the bank chooses above minimum capital and liquidity …
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The Stability and Growth Pact is under fire. Problems have appeared in sticking to the rules. Proposals to reform the Pact or ditch it altogether abound. But is the Pact a flawed fiscal rule? Against established criteria for an ideal fiscal rule, its design and compliance mechanisms fare...
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The Stability and Growth Pact has been under fire ever since it was born. But is the Pact a flawed fiscal rule? Against established criteria for an ideal fiscal rule, its design and compliance mechanisms show strengths and weaknesses. The latter tend to reflect trade-offs typical of...
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SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...
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We make three points. First, the decade before the financial crisis in 2007 was characterized by a collapse in the yield on TIPS. Second, estimated VARs for the federal funds rate and the TIPS yield show that while monetary policy shocks had negligible effects on the TIPS yield, shocks to the...
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