thereby increase surplus liquidity. East Asian central banks with more flexible exchange rate regimes also face surplus … liquidity that mainly emanates from past accumulation of foreign reserves. We show based on an augmented Barro …-Gordon-type central bank loss function that in both cases surplus liquidity limits monetary policy autonomy. In case of fixed exchange …

recipient central bank as the bearer of the credit risk. Second, from the perspective of the transmission of monetary policy, it … risk. We find support for these predictions using difference-in-difference empirical strategies that exploit the fact that … to dollar funding risk, only some dollar bonds are significantly traded by foreign banks, and only some banks have a …

We provide benchmarks to evaluate what is an optimal foreign debt and a maximal foreign debt (debt-max), when risk is … capital. We consider two sets of high- risk countries during the period 1978-99: a subset of 21 countries that defaulted on … default risk, and add another dimension to the literature of early warning signals of default/credit risk. …

of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But since only a small literature has studied this question, more research … termination via prepayment or default affects optimal risk-sharing. The broad conclusion of the analysis is that potential … mortgage termination makes higher risk exposure for borrowers optimal. …

From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive … relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market …-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the strength of the relation, it is strong for the most liquid stocks. The relation …

asset prices and corporate default risk. Our model includes two empirically grounded nominal frictions: fixed nominal …

This paper introduces agent heterogeneity, liquidity, and endogenous default to a DSGE framework. Our model allows for … the economy. Due to liquidity and endogenous default, the transmission mechanism of shocks is well defined, and their …