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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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International Liquidity Management : Sterilization Policy in Illiquid Financial Markets

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems … liquidity management issues more generally …

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A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM) : Safety Traps and Economic Policy

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2013

. Safety traps share many common features with conventional liquidity traps, but also exhibit important differences, in …

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Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2006

In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...

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Flight to Quality and Collective Risk Management

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2006

We present a model of flight to quality episodes that emphasizes systemic risk and the Knightian uncertainty surrounding these episodes. Agents make risk management decisions with incomplete knowledge. They understand their own shocks, but are uncertain of how correlated their shocks are with...

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Differences and changes in wage structures

Freeman, Richard B. (contributor); Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1995

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Relational Investing : The Worker's Perspective

Lazear, Edward P. - 1996

Workers who hold a firm's stock make decisions other than those that pure capital owners would make, but there exist institutions and compensation packages that will generally lead workers to favor efficient firm decisions. Workers care about their firm-specific rents and may seek shares in...

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Fire Sales in a Model of Complexity

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

Financial assets provide return and liquidity services to their holders. However, during severe financial crises many … asset prices plummet, destroying their liquidity provision function at the worst possible time. In this paper we present a … not control or understand. The liquidity of the market quickly vanishes and a financial crisis ensues. The model exhibits …

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A Dual Liquidity Model for Emerging Markets

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2002

emerging economy, and those affecting borrowing from foreign lenders. This 'dual liquidity' model offers a parsimonious …

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Do Unions Make Enterprises Insolvent?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1994

This study investigates the impact of unionization and firm, business line, or establishment survival. A consistent empirical finding is that unions raise wages above those found in nonunion firms, and that in a competitive product market one would expect to find that unionized firms would go...

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