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Since 2008, the central banks of advanced countries have borrowed trillions of dollars from their commercial banks in the form of interest-paying reserves and invested the proceeds in portfolios of risky assets. We investigate how this new style of central banking affects central banks'...
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Fixing the investment horizon, the returns to currency carry trades decrease as the maturity of the foreign bonds increases, because the local currency term premia offset the currency risk premia. The time series predictability of foreign bond returns in dollars similarly declines as the...
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Low- and middle-income college borrowers often struggle with economic opportunity and loan burdens after leaving school. However, some institutions, including some non-selective schools, do a good job of providing economic mobility to low-income students. This implies that there is scope for a...
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We conduct the first field experiment of a performance-contingent microfinance contract. A large food multinational wishes to help micro-distributors in its supply chain with the financing of a productive asset. Working with the firm in Kenya, we compare asset financing under a traditional debt...
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administrative credit panel data, we show that the payment pause led to a sharp drop in student loan payments and delinquencies for … borrowers subject to the debt moratorium, as well as an increase in credit scores. We find a large stimulus effect, as borrowers … to increase borrowing on credit cards, mortgages, and auto loans rather than avoid delinquencies. The effects are …
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Only about one-fifth of respondents in the Reuters/University of Michigan survey report that the 2008 tax rebates led them to mostly increase spending, while over half said it would lead them to mostly pay off debt. Of those in the mostly-spend category, the response was swift, with over 80...
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Framing remains one of the pillars of behavioral economics. While framing effects have been found to be quite important in the lab, what is less clear is how well evidence drawn from naturally-occurring settings conforms to received laboratory insights. We use debt obligation to the UK...
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Indonesian economic crisis on household welfare there. Using only pre-crisis household information, we estimate the compensating …-parametric methods. We find that virtually every household was severely impacted, although it was the urban poor that fared the worst … the geographic location of the household mattered even within urban or rural areas and household income categories …
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This paper reviews the literature on international comparative household finance. The paper presents summary statistics … on household balance sheets for 13 developed countries, and uses these statistics to discuss common features and …
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Income is simultaneously one of the most important variables used by economists and the variable most likely to be missing due to item non-response. While observations that are missing income responses are often dropped from analyses, such treatment is usually inappropriate. More appropriate...
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