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We estimate the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition using a general-equilibrium simulation model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and labor markets. We draw three conclusions after calibrating the model to the euro area...
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-ask spreads and depth), returns, volatility, and order flow in the stock and bond markets. We find that a shock to quoted spreads … in one market affects the spreads in both markets, and that return volatility is an important driver of liquidity …. Innovations to stock and bond market liquidity and volatility prove to be significantly correlated, suggesting that common factors …
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Does the presence of arbitrageurs decrease equilibrium asset price volatility? I study an economy with arbitrageurs … effect). In equilibrium, the presence of arbitrageurs increases volatility when the inference effect dominates the arbitrage …
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We use daily data on bank reserves and overnight interest rates to document a striking pattern in the high-frequency behavior of the U.S. market for federal funds: depository institutions tend to hold more reserves during the last few days of each "reserve maintenance period", when the...
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This paper proposes a simple framework for analyzing a continuum of monetary policy rules characterized by differing degrees of credibility, in which commitment and discretion become special cases of what we call quasi commitment. The monetary policy authority is assumed to formulate optimal...
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high frequency. The model yields predictions on biweekly patterns of the federal funds rate's volatility and on its … results are consistent with empirical patterns of interest rate volatility in the U.S. market for federal funds …
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