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We review recent changes in monetary policy that have led to development and testing of an overnight reverse repurchase agreement (ON RRP) facility, an innovative tool for implementing monetary policy during the normalization process. Making ON RRPs available to a broad set of investors,...
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This paper develops a framework to study the interaction between banking, price dynamics, and monetary policy. Deposit contracts are written in nominal terms: if prices unexpectedly fall, the real value of banks' existing obligations increases. Banks default, panics precipitate, economic...
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manner. Central bank interventions have reduced the spreads as well as the effect of refinancing risk on them. …
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In the mid-2000s, federal bank regulatory agencies became alarmed by steadily increasing concentrations of commercial … of macroprudential regulation to have a significant and broad influence on bank behavior. …
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We test three hypotheses regarding changes in supervisory "toughness" and their effects on bank lending. The data … provide modest support for all three hypotheses that there was an increase in toughness during the credit crunch period (1989 …, affected bank lending. However, all of the measured effects are small, with 1% or less of loans receiving harsher or easier …
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carry a uniform risk weight, irrespective of variations in credit risk. The proposed new Capital Accord of the Bank for … International Settlements provides for a greater sensitivity of capital requirements to credit risk, raising the question of whether … agencies. We combine Moody's data on changes in U.S. borrowers' credit ratings since 1970 with estimates of the risk profile of …
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