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An Empirical Model of Subprime Mortgage Default From 2000 to 2007
Bajari, Patrick - 2008
The turmoil that started with increased defaults in the subprime mortgage market has generated instability in the financial system around the world. To better understand the root causes of this financial instability, we quantify the relative importance of various drivers behind subprime...
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Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis : The Panic of 1826
Hilt, Eric - 2009
In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
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Fiscal Policy and Financial Depth
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2004
Most economists and observers place the lack of fiscal discipline at the core of the recent Argentine crisis. This begs the question of how countries like Belgium or Italy (pre-Maastricht) could run large fiscal deficits and accumulate debts far beyond those of Argentina, without experiencing...
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Monetary Policy Cooperation/Coordination and Global Financial Crises in Historical Perspective
Bordo, Michael D. - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic spawned a global liquidity crisis in March 2020. The global liquidity crisis was alleviated by … leading tool to manage international liquidity crises. The swap network can be viewed as a step in the direction of a global …
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Interpreting the Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy of 2007-09
Reis, Ricardo - 2010
compares the Federal Reserve's actions with the literature on optimal policy in a liquidity trap. The theory suggests that, to … securities markets can restore liquidity with fewer government funds than extending credit to the originators of loans …
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Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing
Shleifer, Andrei - 2010
credit easing, defined as a combination of lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit …
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Crisis and Responses : the Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 2008
ensuring that liquidity would be distributed to those institutions that needed it most. Conceptually, this meant America …
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Monetary Exchange in Over-the-Counter Markets : A Theory of Speculative Bubbles, the Fed Model, and Self-fulfilling Liquidity Crises
Lagos, Ricardo - 2015
prices and standard measures of financial liquidity, such as bid-ask spreads, trade volume, and the incentives of dealers to … monetary policy as well as the microstructure of the market where it is traded. These liquidity considerations imply a positive … anomalous. The theory also exhibits rational expectations equilibria with recurring belief driven events that resemble liquidity …
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Dollar Illiquidity and Central Bank Swap Arrangements During the Global Financial Crisis
Rose, Andrew K. - 2011
While the global financial crisis was centered in the United States, it led to a surprising appreciation in the dollar, suggesting global dollar illiquidity. In response, the Federal Reserve partnered with other central banks to inject dollars into the international financial system. Empirical...
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The Impacts of Crises on the Trilemma Configurations
Aizenman, Joshua; Chinn, Menzie David; Itō, Hiro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
important policy instrument, insuring against liquidity shortages. We find that countries' policy mixes are diverse, and have …
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