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During the recent financial crisis, central banks have provided liquidity and governments have set up rescue programmes … bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity and monitors too little. A … central bank can alleviate the liquidity problem, but induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce an additional authority …
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banks have provided liquidity and ministries of finance have set up rescue programmes to restore confidence and stability …. Using a model of a systemic bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity … and takes excessive risk compared to the social optimum. A Lender of Last Resort can alleviate the liquidity problem, but …
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This paper applies the Meese-Rogoff (1983a) methodology to the stock market. We compare the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of various time-series and fundamentals-based models of aggregate stock prices. We stick as close as possible to the original Meese-Rogoff sample and methodology. Just...
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recovery (itself driven by changes in capital policies since the world wars) and by the slowdown of productivity and population …-income ratio β is about 300% if g= 3% and 600% if g= 1.5%. Our results have important implications for capital taxation and … regulation and shed new light on the changing nature of wealth, the shape of the production function, and the rise of capital …
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depletion are faster than demanded by the Hotelling rule. As a result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital so …
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This paper shows that proximity to major international financial centers seems to reduce business cycle volatility. In particular, we show that countries that are further from major locations of international financial activity systematically experience more volatile growth rates in both output...
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We analyze public interventions to alleviate debt overhang among private firms when the government has limited information and limited resources. We compare the efficiency of buying equity, purchasing existing assets, and providing debt guarantees. With symmetric information, all the...
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regulators try to resolve these problems. We find that liberalizing bank capital flows between economies reduces total welfare by … field' forcing international harmonization of capital requirements and deposit rates across economies. Such a policy is good … for weaker regulators whereas a laissez-faire policy under which each country chooses its own capital requirement is …
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In this paper we develop techniques for measuring the trade policy equivalent of domestic distortions, using a distance function approach. Our measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, is shown to equal the uniform tariff which is welfare-equivalent to a given pattern of domestic taxes and...
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In this Paper we reconsider the evidence on capital account liberalization and growth. While we find indications of a … positive association, the effects vary with time, with how capital account liberalization is measured, and with how the … relationship is estimated. The evidence that the effects of capital account liberalization are stronger in high-income countries is …
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