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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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system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market … context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they remain central to discussions of international macroeconomic policy … coordination. To take two prominent examples of specific (and related) coordination problems, liquidity issues are paramount in …
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Can banks maintain their advantage as liquidity providers when they are heavily exposed to a financial crisis? The … liquidity insurer is not one of the passive recipient, but of an active seeker, of deposits. We find that banks facing a funding … liquidity demand shocks (as measured by their unused commitments, wholesale funding dependence, and limited liquid assets), as …
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paper evaluates the impact of dark trading and fragmentation in visible order books on liquidity. We consider global … liquidity by consolidating the limit order books of all visible trading venues, and local liquidity by considering the … traditional market only. We find that fragmentation in visible order books improves global liquidity, whereas dark trading has a …
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How do firms' sales interact across markets? Are foreign and domestic sales complements or substitutes? Using a large French firm-level database that combines balance-sheet and product-destination-specific export information over the period 1995-2001, we study the interconnections between...
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The paper analyses and compares the role that the tightening in liquidity conditions and the collapse in risk appetite … empirical exercise with a Global VAR approach, the findings highlight the diversity of the transmission process. While liquidity …
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finds that common shocks--key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk--have exerted a large effect on …
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Employing data from a new secondary market for hedge funds, this paper documents the existence of a closed-hedge fund premium, analogous to the closed-end mutual fund premium which has been extensively studied in the literature. Over the past decade, the two premia comove with one another at...
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