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We show that direct investments by consumers without the use of financial intermediaries can efficiently allocate financial capital to firms seeking funding for production of a novel consumption good. In our setting, consumers are also investors, and their privately known consumption preferences...
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bond and note issuance it experienced significant growth in 1999 even slightly overtaking the US dollar in the second half …
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including global equities, global bonds, commodities, US Treasuries, credit, and options. This predictability rejects a …
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This Paper analyses corporate bond valuation and optimal call and default rules when interest rates and firm value are … stochastic. It then uses the results to explain the dynamics of hedging. Bankruptcy rules are important determinants of corporate … bond sensitivity to interest rates and firm value. Although endogenous and exogenous bankruptcy models can be calibrated to …
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This Paper develops a broad concept of systemic risk, the basic economic concept for the understanding of financial crises. It is claimed that any such concept must integrate systemic events in banking and financial markets as well as in the related payment and settlement systems. At the heart...
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This Paper investigates the relationship between risk and productive activity and the degree of financial intermediation in a model with moral hazard. Entreprenuers can simultaneously get credit from two types of competing institutions: ‘financial intermediaries’ and ‘local lenders’. The...
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I study the constrained efficient allocations of a simple model of risk sharing and capital flows across countries assuming that each country cannot commit to fully repay its contract obligations. In the model, the degree of risk sharing and the amount of investment are interdependent. It is...
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This Paper uses an overlapping generations model to analyse monetary policy in a two-country model with asymmetric shocks. Agents insure against risk through the exchange of a complete set of real securities. Each central bank is able to commit to the contingent monetary policy rule that...
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enhance both domestic currency bond markets and increase countries’ ability to issue foreign currency bonds, while they raise …The development of government bond markets and, in particular, their currency composition have recently received much … composition of government bond markets for a panel of developed and developing countries. We find that countries with larger …
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A central tenet of inflation targeting is that establishing and maintaining well-anchored inflation expectations are essential. In this paper, we reexamine the role of key elements of the inflation targeting framework towards this end, in the context of an economy where economic agents have an...
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