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nominal interest rate), in a general-equilibrium model of asset pricing and risk sharing with endogenous collateral … constraints of the kind proposed by Geanakoplos (1997). The existence of collateral constraints allows our model to capture the …-bank purchases raise the price of the asset, owing to binding collateral constraints, the effects need not be the ones commonly …
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unsecured lending and substantial increases in haircuts on posted collateral. This paper seeks to understand the implications of …
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We study a production economy with multiple sectors financed by issuing securities to agents who face capital constraints. Binding capital constraints propagate business cycles, and a reduction of the interest rate can increase the required return of high-haircut assets since it can increase the...
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Analysis of quantitative easing (QE) typically focus on the recent past studying the policy's effectiveness during a financial crisis when nominal interest rates are zero. This paper examines instead the usefulness of QE in a future fiscal crisis, modeled as a situation where the fiscal outlook...
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intended effects of the policies), and their possible collateral effects on financial stability. The present paper compares …
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amplification in response to domestic shocks or global spillovers and pecuniary externalities caused by Fisherian collateral …
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into a system with significant amounts of wholesale short-term debt that relies on collateral, and in particular Treasuries …, which have a convenience yield. In the new economy the quality of collateral matters: when Treasuries are scarce, the … Treasuries is high, a financial crisis is more likely. The central bank's open market operations affect the quality of collateral …
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Have bank regulatory policies and unconventional monetary policies--and any possible interactions--been a factor behind the recent "deglobalisation" in cross-border bank lending? To test this hypothesis, we use bank-level data from the UK--a country at the heart of the global financial system....
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When firms are able to pledge their assets as collateral, investment and borrowing become endogenous: pledgeable assets … between capital spending and cash flows is non-monotonic in the firm's asset tangibility. Our theory allows us to use a …
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classical option theory. A substantial literature has emerged examining the problem, focusing on the characteristics of the … behavior, using both householder characteristics and collateral (house) value. Second, it empirically recognizes important … interactions between the status of the prepayment option and the influence of income and collateral constraints upon prepayment …
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