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Can banks maintain their advantage as liquidity providers when they are heavily exposed to a financial crisis? The … liquidity insurer is not one of the passive recipient, but of an active seeker, of deposits. We find that banks facing a funding … liquidity demand shocks (as measured by their unused commitments, wholesale funding dependence, and limited liquid assets), as …
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This paper explores how international money markets reflected credit and liquidity risks during the global financial … markets, while liquidity risk caused the difference across the currency denominations. They also support the view that a … shortage of US dollar as liquidity distorted the international money markets during the crisis. We find that coordinated …
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market liquidity and shorter debt maturity can exacerbate this externality and cause costly firm bankruptcy at higher … fundamental thresholds. Our model provides implications on liquidity-spillover effects, the flight-to-quality phenomenon, and …
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We revisit the question of what determines the credibility of macroeconomic policies here, of promises to repay public debt. Almost all thinking on the issue has focused on governments' strategic decision to default (or erode the value of outstanding debt via inflation/devaluation). But...
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This paper studies a model where money is valued for the liquidity services it provides in the future. These liquidity … services cannot be provided by any other asset. Changes in expectations of the value of future liquidity services affect the …. Furthermore, shifts between money and other assets that are driven by precautionary liquidity demand make nominal interest rates …
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We study the role of fiscal policy in a complete markets model where the only friction is the nonpledgeability of human capital. We show that the competitive equilibrium is constrained inefficient, leading to too little risky investment. We also show that fiscal policy following a large negative...
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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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Time-inconsistency of no-bailout policies can create incentives for banks to take excessive risks and generate endogenous crises when the government cannot commit. However, at the outbreak of financial problems, usually the government is uncertain about their nature, and hence it may delay...
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We study the effects of fiscal policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the firm, sector, country and global level. First, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on small and medium sized enterprise (SME) business failures. We combine firm-level financial data from 50...
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We study the effects of monetary and fiscal policies when both money and government bonds provide liquidity services … the supply of bonds. Those movements in government bond prices affect available liquidity, and therefore aggregate demand … interest rate on money. We conclude that in a liquidity-dependent world, fiscal and monetary policies are joined at the hip …
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