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leveraged banks’ precautionary demand for liquidity. When adverse asset shocks materialize, a bank’s ability to roll over debt … is impaired because of agency problems associated with high leverage. In turn, a bank’s propensity to hoard liquidity is …
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banks to have private information about the risk of their assets. We show how banks' asset risk affects funding liquidity in … state with adverse selection and elevated rates; and iii) market breakdown with liquidity hoarding. We provide an … of unsecured rates and excess reserves banks hold, as well as the inability of massive liquidity injections by central …
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We model systemic risk in an interbank market. Banks face liquidity needs as consumers are uncertain about where they … need to consume. Interbank credit lines allow banks to cope with these liquidity shocks while reducing the cost of …
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A monetary overlapping generations model with oligopolistic imperfect competition is constructed. In general, output and employment are below their full employment levels. Three alternative expectations hypotheses are used - 'adaptive', 'monetarist' and 'pure rational' - all of which ensure no...
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Monetary and fiscal policy are introduced into a version of Hart's "Keynesian features" model of imperfect competition. Individuals' labour supply is exogenous, so, under perfect competition, output is always at the exogenous "full employment" level. Imperfect competition takes the form of...
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theory of monetary and fiscal policy. A general framework is presented which encompasses most of the existing literature …
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The first part of the paper analyzes the inflationary risks associated with price liberalization, the welfare costs of inflation and the difficulties of East European central banks in pursuing non-inflationary policies. The main obstacles are the low credibility of stabilization policies and a...
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Some central banks have a reputation for being secretive. A justification for this behaviour that we find in the literature is that being transparent about operations and beliefs hinders the central bank in achieving the best outcome. In other words, a central bank needs flexibility and...
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After a brief review of classical, Keynesian, New Classical and New Keynesian theories of macroeconomic policy, we assess whether New Keynesian Economics captures the quintessential features stressed by JM Keynes. Particular attention is paid to Keynesian features omitted in New Keynesian...
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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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