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The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market---rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities---led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...
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The importance of financial markets and international capital flows have increased greatly since the 1990s. How does …
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We study capital misallocation within and across 10 African countries using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys. First … product of capital (MPK), implying that countries could produce significantly more with the same aggregate capital stock if … capital were allocated optimally. Such variation differs from country to country with some African countries (success stories …
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We study rollover risk and collateral value in a dynamic asset pricing model with endogenous debt financing by … news. We demonstrate the optimality of the maximum riskless short-term debt financing for optimistic borrowers even in the …
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This paper analyses the effects of open market operations on interest rates in a model in which agents must pay a fixed cost to exchange assets and cash. Asset markets are endogenously segmented in that some agents choose to pay the fixed cost and some do not. When the fixed cost is zero, the...
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Researchers, using the survey conducted by Money Market Services, Inc., have found that the anticipated component in the Federal Reserve's weekly money supply announcement is negatively correlated with the post- announcement change in market yields. We prove that eliminating a (downward) bias in...
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