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The Dynamics of Financially Constrained Arbitrage
Gromb, Denis; Vayanos, Dimitri - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
, liquidity, and asset prices. Arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies between assets traded in segmented markets, and in doing … so provide liquidity to investors. A collateral constraint limits their positions as a function of capital. We show that … markets, liquidity in each market generally becomes less volatile, but the reverse may hold for aggregate liquidity because of …
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Inequality, Leverage and Crises
Kumhof, Michael; Rancière, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The paper studies how high leverage and crises can arise as a result of changes in the income distribution. Empirically, the periods 1920-1929 and 1983-2007 both exhibited a large increase in the income share of the rich, a large increase in leverage for the remainder, and an eventual financial...
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Betting the House
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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Cross-Border Liquidity, Relationships and Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Euro Area Interbank Crisis
Abbassi, Puriya; Bräuning, Falk; Fecht, Falko; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the impact of financial crises and monetary policy on the supply of wholesale funding liquidity, and also on … on interbank access and volume is stronger than on spreads. Liquidity supply restrictions are exacerbated for cross … dispersion substantially decreases when the Eurosystem promises unlimited access to liquidity at a fixed price in October 2008 …
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The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks’ balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
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Never Say Never: Commentary on a Policymaker’s Reflections
Obstfeld, Maurice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Stanley Fischer is a rarity among economic policymakers. He came to the policy world as an internationally recognized intellectual leader on macroeconomic theory and policy. He confronted numerous emerging market crises, including the globally systemic Asian crisis, as the IMF’s First Deputy...
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The Labor Market Consequences of Financial Crises With or Without Inflation: Jobless and Wageless Recoveries
Calvo, Guillermo; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Ottonello, Pablo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper offers empirical evidence showing that, relative to "normal" recessions, financial crises hit the labor market by either enhancing the degree of joblessness and/or by further depressing the real wage – a situation that the paper labels "wageless recovery." This holds for a sample of...
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Optimal Interventions in Markets with Adverse Selection
Philippon, Thomas; Skreta, Vasiliki - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study interventions to restore efficient lending and investment when financial markets fail because of adverse selection. We solve a design problem where the decision to participate in a program offered by the government can be a signal for private information. We charac terize optimal...
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A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules, Adverse Selection and Long-Run Financial Risk
Blommestein, Hans J.; Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Qian, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium macro-finance model with two types of borrowers: entrepreneurs who want to produce and gamblers who want to play a lottery. It links central bank's interest rate policy to expected cash flows of both types. This link enables us to study how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371476
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Gambling for resurrection in Iceland: the rise and fall of the banks
Baldursson, Fridrik Mar; Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
liquidity until their collapse. An official report (SIC, 2010) has, however, exposed severe weaknesses in the banks’ assets and … borrowers, while they should have been deleveraging and securing their liquidity positions in foreign currency. The banks also … before the collapse of October 2008 the banks all reported strong liquidity positions. These reports were misleading, but we …
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