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insurance schemes; the double-edged sword nature of liquidity provision by central banks; the often misunderstood role of …
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It is high time we rediscovered the role of the financial cycle in macroeconomics. In the environment that has prevailed for at least three decades now, it is not possible to understand business fluctuations and the corresponding analytical and policy challenges without understanding the...
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. Central banks face a threefold challenge: economic, intellectual and institutional. This essay puts forward a compass to help … central banks sail in the largely uncharted waters ahead. The compass is based on tighter integration of the monetary and …
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The recent financial crisis has triggered a major rethink of analytical approaches and policy towards financial stability. The crisis has encouraged a sharper focus on systemic risk, the inclusion of a financial sector in macroeconomic models, a shift from a microprudential to a macroprudential...
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optimal CR is tighter relative to the pre-crisis benchmark. Optimal CR is also bank specific, and tighter for large banks than … for small banks. This is for three reasons. First, allowing small banks to take more leverage enables them to potentially … grow faster, leading to a growth effect. Second, although more leverage by small banks results in a higher exit rate, these …
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If the criteria for an institution's success are diffusion and longevity, then central banking has been hugely successful. But if the criterion is the degree to which it has achieved its goals, then the evaluation has to be more nuanced. Historically, those goals have included a changing mix of...
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significant idiosyncratic elements, including the threat of an unprecedented involuntary reintermediation wave for banks and the …
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. This article explores these questions by first providing an overview of central banks and bankers. Among the G-10 countries …
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It is hard to find a period in the post-war era in which inflation-adjusted interest rates have been so low for so long and monetary and credit aggregates have expanded so much without igniting inflation (the Great Liquidity Expansion puzzle). What lies behind these developments? How benign are...
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insurance schemes; the double-edged sword nature of liquidity provision by central banks; the often misunderstood role of …
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