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-rate process is truncated at zero. Despite its simplicity, a version of this model incorporating inflation can fit longer …
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, since they move real rates and expected inflation in opposite directions. Monetary policy shocks are the only macroeconomic …
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"Why is inflation persistently high in some periods and low in others? The reason may be absence of commitment in … trigger strategies. In these traps, expectations of high or low inflation lead the public to take defensive actions, which … inflation rate is low on average. This analysis suggests that institutions which promote commitment can prevent high inflation …
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A speech delivered on February 4, 2014, at the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, MI.
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Remarks for the Bank of Korea International Conference 2010, June 1, 2010 Seoul, Korea
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Remarks for the IL Wesleyan University Associates Business Luncheon, May 14, 2010 Bloomington, IN
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Publicly owned or commissioned banks were common in Europe from the fifteenth century. This survey argues that while the early public banks were characterized by great experimentation in their design, a common goal was to create a liquid and reliable monetary asset in environments where such...
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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...
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Diamond and Dybvig (1983) is commonly understood as providing a formal rationale for the existence of bank-run equilibria. It has never been clear, however, whether bank-run equilibria in this framework are a natural byproduct of the economic environment or an artifact of suboptimal contractual...
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In this paper, we lay out a simple framework that captures much of what the theoretical literature has to say about the role of credit in systemically important asset booms and busts. In addition, we suggest ways in which to incorporate physical investment in the bubble asset as well as monetary...
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