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mortgage rates move one-for-one with 10-year swap rates, leaving little explanatory power for mortgage concentration, bank …
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Before the 2008 crisis, the cross-sectional skewness of banks' leverage went up and macro risk concentrated in the balance sheets of large banks. Using a model of profit-maximizing banks with heterogeneous Value-at-Risk constraints, we extract the distribution of banks' risk-taking parameters...
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Three possible explanations for the emergence of the Canadian central bank in 1935 are examined: that it reflected the …
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The paper sets out and analyzes a simple model of money, banking, and price level determination. The model is first used to illustrate recent developments in the theory and analysis of banking, particularly the distinction between the portfolio management services provided by banks and their...
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The paper uses bank- and instrument-level data on asset holdings and liabilities to identify and estimate a general … equilibrium model of trade in financial instruments. Bilateral ties are formed as each bank selects the size and the … lead to less amplification of partial equilibrium shocks, (ii) the influence of a bank's equity is independent of the size …
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document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional--deposit-taking--banks in …Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …
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-of-second-to-last-resort". Using daily supervisory bank balance sheet information, we find that U.S. GSIBs modestly increase their dollar liquidity … broker-dealer subsidiaries within the same bank holding company are crucial to this type of "reserve-draining" intermediation …
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We quantify the impact of bank market power on monetary policy transmission through banks to borrowers. We estimate a …-through of these costs to borrowers and depositors, while facing capital and reserve regulation. We find that bank market power … explains much of the transmission of monetary policy to borrowers, with an effect comparable to that of bank capital regulation …
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Woodford (2003) describes a popular class of neo-Wicksellian models in which monetary policy is characterized by an interest-rate rule, and the money market and financial institutions are typically not even modeled. Critics contend that these models are incomplete and unsuitable for...
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The globalization of banking in the United States is influencing the monetary transmission mechanism both domestically and in foreign markets. Using quarterly information from all U.S. banks filing call reports between 1980 and 2005, we find evidence for the lending channel for monetary policy...
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