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What are liquidity crises? And what can be done to address them? This short paper brings together some personal …: the distinction between idiosyncratic and systematic elements of liquidity crises; the growing reliance on funding … liquidity in a market-based financial system; the role of payment and settlement systems; the need to improve liquidity buffers …
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What are liquidity crises? And what can be done to address them? This short paper brings together some personal …: the distinction between idiosyncratic and systematic elements of liquidity crises; the growing reliance on funding … liquidity in a market-based financial system; the role of payment and settlement systems; the need to improve liquidity buffers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009138459
We examine the liquidity effects of the euro area sovereign debt crisis, including its effects on euro area banks as a … group, on intra-euro area financial flows, on the supply of and demand for collateral, and on international liquidity. The … deficit countries and its collateral policy. The euro crisis has also created international liquidity stresses. We find that …
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The 1960s and 1970s witnessed rapid growth in the markets for new money market instruments, such as negotiable certificates of deposit (CDs) and Eurodollar deposits, as banks and investors sought ways around various regulations affecting funding markets. In this paper, we investigate the impacts...
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We propose a regime-switching approach to deal with the lower bound on nominal interest rates in dynamic term structure modelling. In the "lower bound regime", the short term rate is expected to remain constant at levels close to the effective lower bound; in the "normal regime", the short rate...
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The response of leading central banks to the current financial crisis has raised the magnitude of the financial and governance risks they face. An evaluation of the financial strength of a number of those banks suggests that they are in little danger of being forced by financial losses to alter...
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The recent global financial crisis has led central banks to rely heavily on "unconventional" monetary policies. This alternative approach to policy has generated much discussion and a heated and at times confusing debate. The debate has been complicated by the use of different definitions and...
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In this paper we analyse developments in the composition of central bank balance sheets for a large set of central banks in a unified framework. Since 2007, central banks in advanced economies have experienced pronounced changes in balance sheet composition as a consequence of unconventional...
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Over the past 15 years there has been remarkable progress in the specification and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Central banks in developed and emerging market economies have become increasingly interested in their usefulness for policy analysis and...
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We explore the effectiveness and balance of benefits and costs of so-called "unconventional" monetary policy measures extensively implemented in the wake of the financial crisis: balance sheet policies (commonly termed "quantitative easing"), forward guidance and negative policy rates. Our...
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