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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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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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Central bank policy suffers from time-inconsistency when facing a banking crisis: A bailout is optimal ex post but ex ante it should be limited to control moral hazard. Dollarization provides a credible commitment not to help at the cost of not helping even when it would be ex ante optimal to do...
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global liquidity creation by key central banks and, second, an ex-ante global saving glut, brought about by the entry of a … England’s liquidity management, regulatory failure of the FSA, an inadequate deposit insurance arrangement and deficient …
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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...
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The traditional theory of commercial banking explains maturity transformation and liquidity provision assuming no …
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We show that financial sector bailouts and sovereign credit risk are intimately linked. A bailout benefits the economy by ameliorating the under-investment problem of the financial sector. However, increasing taxation of the non-financial sector to fund the bailout may be inefficient since it...
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Systemic risk is modeled as the endogenously chosen correlation of returns on assets held by banks. The limited liability of banks and the presence of a negative externality of one bank’s failure on the health of other banks give rise to a systemic risk-shifting incentive where all banks...
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Fire sales that occur during crises beg the question of why sufficient outside capital does not move in quickly to take advantage of fire sales, or in other words, why outside capital is so slow-moving. We propose an answer to this puzzle in the context of an equilibrium model of capital...
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