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share the burden of the default with peso depositors. The incentive to dollarize is reinforced by common banking system …
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A recent influential paper (O'Connell 1998) argues that panel data evidence in favor of purchasing power parity disappears once test procedures are altered to accommodate heterogeneous cross-sectional dependence among real exchange rate innovations. We present evidence to the contrary. First, we...
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Remarks at the Center for the New Economy 2010 Economic Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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We find that banks charge more for overdraft credit when depositors have access to a potential substitute: deferred deposit ("payday") credit. We attribute this rise in prices partly to adverse selection created by banks' practice of charging a flat fee regardless of the overdraft...
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Following the investment-cash flow literature, we test whether bank lending is constrained by the availability of insured deposits--a necessary condition for the existence of bank lending channel of monetary policy. We treat insured deposits as a type of "internal fund," similar to cash flows....
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known, the banking authority can eliminate the possibility of a bank run by committing to suspend payments to depositors if … a run were to start. We show, however, that in an environment without commitment, the banking authority will choose to …
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welfare because it only reduces risk sharing. In contrast, in the U.S. banking system, where there is less competition for …
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in the banking system. This framework describes the type of bank run that has occurred historically in the United States … and more recently in developing countries. However, in a modern banking system, large withdrawals take the form of … electronic payments of inside money, with no analog of a depletion of a scarce reserve from the banking system. In a new …
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This paper analyzes the political economy of growth when agents and the government have finite horizons and equilibrium growth is inefficient. A "representative" government (that is, one whose preferences reflect those of its constituents) endowed merely with the ability to tax and transfer can...
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