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Explanations of why changes in the relative quantities of safe debt seem to affect asset prices often appeal informally to a “portfolio balance” mechanism. I show how this type of effect can be incorporated in a general class of structural, arbitrage-free asset-pricing models using a...
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We study a model with heterogeneous producers that face collateral and cash in advance constraints. These two frictions give rise to a non-trivial financial market in a monetary economy. A tightening of the collateral constraint results in a credit-crunch generated recession. The model can...
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at several maturities into components reflecting counterparty credit risk and funding-market liquidity. To account for … longer maturities, credit risk explains much of the time variation in Libor, reflecting in part fluctuations in the degree to … which default risk is priced in the interbank market. Our results are consistent with banks both under- and over …
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stabilization and agents face uncertainty about the nature of these deviations. When observing a deviation, agents conduct Bayesian … prompt return to the active regime, macroeconomic uncertainty is low, welfare is high. However, if a deviation persists …, agents’ beliefs start drifting, uncertainty accelerates, and welfare declines. If the duration of the deviations is announced …
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We study the effect of different types of macroeconomic impulses on the nominal yield curve. We employ two distinct approaches to identifying economic shocks in VARs. Our first approach uses a structural VAR due to Galí (1992). Our second strategy identifies fundamental impulses from...
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term structures of risk-free rates. In our framework, distinct core, food, and energy price series combine into a measure … inflation-indexed bond market. Finally, we find a pronounced declining pattern in the inflation risk premium that illustrates … the changing nature of inflation risk in nominal Treasuries. …
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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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