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runs within this class of mechanism is that banks cannot identify whether withdrawals are being driven by psychology or by …
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The housing boom that preceded the Great Recession was due to an increase in credit supply driven by looser lending …
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I consider a real business cycle model in which agents have private information about an idiosyncratic shock to their value of leisure. I consider the mechanism design problem for this economy and describe a computational method to solve it. This is an important contribution of the paper since...
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We use a quantitative equilibrium model with houses, collateralized debt and foreign borrowing to study the impact of global imbalances on the U.S. economy in the 2000s. Our results suggest that the dynamics of foreign capital flows account for between one fourth and one third of the increase in...
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We use matched, bank-level panel data on Libor submissions and credit default swaps to decompose bank-funding spreads … at several maturities into components reflecting counterparty credit risk and funding-market liquidity. To account for … the possibility that banks may strategically misreport their funding rates in the Libor survey, we nest our decomposition …
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We explore a policy-induced change in borrower ability to shop for mortgages to investigate whether market competitiveness affects mortgage interest rates. Our paper exploits a discontinuity in the competitive landscape introduced by the Home Affordable Refinancing Program (HARP). Under HARP,...
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The main rationale for policy intervention in debt renegotiation is to enhance such activity when foreclosures are perceived to be inefficiently high. We examine the ability of the government to influence debt renegotiation by empirically evaluating the effects of the 2009 Home Affordable...
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