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Since bank credit lines are a major source of corporate funding and liquidity, we examine the determinants of credit … line usage with a database of Spanish corporate credit lines. A line's default status is the primary factor driving its … monitoring in firms' usage decisions. Credit line usage is found to be inversely related to macroeconomic conditions. Overall …
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Managing the credit risk inherent to a corporate credit line is similar to that of a term loan, but with one key … default (LGD). However, since a credit line allows the borrowers to draw down the committed funds according to their own needs … corporate lending within Spain over the last 20 years, provides the most comprehensive overview of corporate credit line use and …
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In 2004 and 2005, long-term interest rates remained remarkably low despite improving economic conditions and rising short-term interest rates, a situation that former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan dubbed a "conundrum." We document the extent and timing of this conundrum using two empirical...
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Recent research has clarified the nature of measurement errors in U.S. price indexes. Changes in the quality of goods create severe problems. Laspeyres-type indexes suffer from substitution bias from one good to another and from one type of outlet to another. Available evidence suggests that the...
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This paper describes an empirical framework for analyzing the monetary transmission mechanism through which changes in monetary policy affect real GDP and inflation. The framework reflects the work of a large number of empirical researchers who have built econometric models of the impacts of...
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This paper examines the issue of whether differences in money targeting or base-drift procedures between Japan and the U.S. are significant contributing factors to Japan's superior macroeconomic performance over the last decade, and concludes that these procedures probably are not important...
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We use vector autoregressions to examine the behavior of the velocities of alternative monetary aggregates, focusing on the role of disinflation and deregulation during the 1980s. By estimating a single system that contains income, prices, interest rates and the components of M3, we are able to...
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