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We build a model of financial sector illiquidity in an open economy. Illiquidity defined as a situation in which a country's consolidated financial system has potential short-term obligations in foreign currency that exceed the amount of foreign currency it can have access to on short notice can...
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One of the productive activities engaging the work force is reorganizing. When factors of production are better matched, productivity is higher. The probabilistic matching model of Diamond, Mortensen, and others provides a way to make the idea of reorganization precise. Because the flow of...
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and deposit-taking may be two manifestations of the same primitive function: the provision of liquidity on demand. After …
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This paper deals with the relations among international liquidity,the exchange-rate regime and the effectiveness of … provision of liquidity …
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This paper attempts to provide a framework for analyzing the interaction between real decisions (concerning investment and factor inputs)and financial decisions (concerning debt and new share issues) of a corporation. The model carries a rich menu of tax rates and explicitly incorporates...
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This paper presents a theoretical model to describe the effects of default risk on international lending to LDC sovereign borrowers. The threat of defaults in international lending is shown to give rise to many characteristics of the syndicated loan market: (1) quantity rationing of loans; (2)...
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the results in Pástor and Stambaugh (2003). Both studies successfully replicate our market-wide liquidity measure and find … similar estimates of the liquidity risk premium. In the sample period after our study, the liquidity risk premium estimates … are even larger, and the liquidity measure displays sharp drops during the 2008 financial crisis. We respond to both …
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We ask why so few student loan borrowers enroll in Income Driven Repayment when the majority would benefit from doing so. To do so we run an incentivized laboratory experiment using a facsimile of the government's Student Loan Exit Counseling website. We test the role information complexity,...
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important innovation is that we include the liquidity yield on government bonds as an explanatory variable. We find impressive … evidence that changes in the liquidity yield are significant in explaining exchange rate changes for all of the G10 countries …. Moreover, after controlling for liquidity yields, traditional determinants of exchange rates - adjustment toward purchasing …
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We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias (Amador, Werning, and Angeletos 2006). The government chooses mandatory contributions to respective spending/savings accounts, each with a different pre-retirement...
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