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This paper examines the impact of carbon pricing on firms' inflation expectations and its implications for central banks' price stability mandate. Carbon policy shocks are identified using high-frequency identification and combined with French firm-level survey data. A change in carbon price...
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changes in France, Germany and Italy. …
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November 1930, the Banque de France (BdF) lent selectively rather than broadly, providing substantially more liquidity to …
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Most macroeconomic models treat the central bank and the trea-sury as a unified entity. The balance sheet of the central bank is therefore implicitly treated as an accounting fiction. While this is often realistic, the central bank balance sheet has implications for central bank independence....
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We draw on a new data set on the use of Swiss francs and other currencies by European banks to assess the patterns of foreign currency bank lending. We show that the patterns differ sharply across foreign currencies. The Swiss franc is used predominantly for lending to residents, especially...
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In this paper we study the evolution of central banks' balance sheets in 12 advanced economies since 1900. We find that balance sheet size in most developed countries has fluctuated within rather clearly defined bands relative to output. Historically, clusters of big expansions and contractions...
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debt and currency crisis. The model is built on two essential blocks: first, erratic macroeconomic policymaking in Greece …
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recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large … capital gain, the return on capital and the interest rate. An optimal debt ratio is derived where the drift is probabilistic …, does not depend upon the actual debt/net worth per se. Instead it increases in proportion to the difference between the …
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leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically founded early warning signals … crisis ; optimal leverage and debt ratios ; Congressional Oversight Panel ; Case-Shiller index …
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when investment is debt-financed. In such a case a firm pays the creditor not only the sum of annual interest (initial … the investment is debt-financed, the interest payment additionally reduces the corporate tax base. The research findings … optimum debt maturity tends to correlate positively with the corporate tax rate but negatively with the interest rate. In the …
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