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We present evidence of a risk-taking channel of monetary policy for the U.S. banking system. We use confidential data …’s survey of terms of business lending. We find that ex-ante risk taking by banks (as measured by the risk rating of the bank …
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view that monetary policy easing induces greater risk-taking by banks but also shows that the relationship between real … interest rates and banking risk is more complex. Ultimately, it depends on how much skin in the game banks have. The central …
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This paper analyzes spillovers from macroeconomic shocks in systemic economies (China, the Euro Area, and the United … States) to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as outward spillovers from a GDP shock in the Gulf … developments in China than to shocks in the Euro Area or the United States, in line with the direction of evolving trade patterns …
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and partially dollarized economy is developed and estimated for Peru to measure the risk spillovers, and simulate domestic …
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We compare the long-term output and current account effects of pension reforms that increase the retirement age with those of reforms that cut pension benefits, conditional on reforms achieving similar fiscal targets. We show the presence of a policy trade-off. Pension reforms that increase the...
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This paper examines how Japan’s long-term interest rates and Japanese banks’ interest rate risk exposures may evolve … increased purchases by the Bank of Japan. At the same time, illustrative scenarios suggest the interest rate risk exposure of …, both long-tem yields and interest-risk exposures of Japanese banks could increase over the medium term. …
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This paper examines the problems in establishing currency convertibility- and the optimal timing- in formerly planned economies making the transition to market-oriented systems.
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Over the last decade, Islamic banking has experienced global growth rates of 10-15 percent per annum, and has been moving into an increasing number of conventional financial systems at such a rapid pace that Islamic financial institutions are present today in over 51 countries. Despite this...
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This paper examines the relationship between the degree of wage indexation chosen by private agents and the degree of indexation of the public debt. It is shown that the government is likely to respond to an increase in the degree of wage indexation by increasing the portion of the public debt...
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