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Earlier research has shown that lender income and wealth constraint ratios discourage homeownership. This empirical research has been based on home purchasers using an 80 percent loan-to-value (LTV) fixed-rate conventional loan. Employing the same assumption, we find that the constraints lowered...
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national best bid and offer. Enhanced order flow to dark venues reduces price competition by exchange liquidity providers …
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Treasury bills and other near-money assets provide owners with liquidity service benefits that are reflected in prices … in the form of a liquidity premium. I relate time variation in this liquidity premium to changes in the opportunity cost … of money: The liquidity service benefits of near-money assets are more valuable when short-term interest rates are high …
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This paper implements a liquidity measure, "Liquidity Mismatch Index (LMI)," to gauge the mismatch between the market … liquidity of assets and the funding liquidity of liabilities. We construct the LMIs for 2882 bank holding companies during 2002 …-2014 and investigate the time-series and cross-sectional patterns of banks' liquidity and liquidity risk. Aggregate banking …
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financial crisis. Yet we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through … studies conducted in eleven countries to explore liquidity risk transmission. Among the main results is, first, that … explanatory power of the empirical model is higher for domestic lending than for international lending. Second, how liquidity risk …
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This paper studies asymmetry in economic activity over the business cycle. It develops a tractable multisector model of the economy in which complementarity across inputs causes aggregate activity to be left skewed with countercyclical volatility. We then examine implications of the model...
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firm's marginal production costs. We test the theory by exploiting the opening of a high-speed (Shinkansen) train line in …
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network as valuable to serve independently, increasing the surplus generated by a foreign acquisition. From the theory we …
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We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period … 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices … default), suggest the existence of time-varying liquidity risk of corporate bond returns conditional on episodes of flight to …
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Firms can finance themselves on- or off-balance sheet. Off-balance sheet financing involves transferring assets to "special purpose vehicles" (SPVs), following accounting and regulatory rules that circumscribe relations between the sponsoring firm and the SPVs. SPVs are carefully designed to...
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