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, especially, the financial cost of filing for bankruptcy. We study the effects of the reform on bankruptcy, insolvency, and … to the rise in filing costs associated with the reform, which can be interpreted as resulting from liquidity constraints …. We find that the decline in bankruptcy filings resulted in a rise in the rate and persistence of insolvency as well as an …
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driving asset prices to ‘overshoot’ equilibrium when an asset bubble bursts - threatening widespread insolvency and what …
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under limited liability should be characterized by higher than average insolvency and employment growth rates. We test these … characterized by higher growth and higher insolvency rates than comparable firms under full liability. Surprisingly, the likelihood … liquidation, while the propensity to insolvency is not affected by the owner’s age. The basic empirical results hold in pooled …
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We study the interplay between competition and trust as efficiency-enhancing mechanims in the private provision of money. With commitment, trust is automatically achieved and competition ensures efficiency. Without commitment, competition plays no role. Trust does play a role but requires a...
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We study how competition from privately-supplied currency substitutes affects monetary equilibria. Whenever currency is inefficiently provided, inside money competition plays a disciplinary role by providing an upper bound on equilibrium inflation rates. Furthermore, if ‘inside monies’ can...
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A large theoretical literature shows that competition reduces banks' franchise values and induces them to take more risk. Recent research contradicts this result: When banks charge lower rates, their borrowers have an incentive to choose safer investments, so they will in turn be safer. However,...
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This paper explores the possible macroeconomic consequences of financial deregulation in an institutional environment where deregulation raises risks in banking. The central bank is assumed to maximize an objective function an argument of which is the probability of bank failure. It is then...
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liquidity is inefficient. The reason is that liquidity affects prices and the welfare of others, and creators do not internalize … government must restrict the creation of liquidity by the private sector. …
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A wide body of empirical evidence, based on randomized experiments, finds that 20-40 percent of fiscal stimulus payments (e.g. tax rebates) are spent on non-durable household consumption in the quarter that they are received. We develop a structural economic model to interpret this evidence. Our...
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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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