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We study how the risks to future liquidity flow across corporate bond, Treasury, and stock markets. We document … distribution “flight-to-safety” effects: a deterioration in the liquidity of high-yield corporate bonds forecasts an increase in … the average liquidity of Treasury securities and a decrease in uncertainty about the liquidity of investment …
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of recent announcements regarding direct asset purchases by the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the U.S. Federal … Reserve and the European Central Bank. Empirical evidence from the previous period of quantitative easing in Japan between … 2001 and 2006 is presented. During this earlier period the Bank of Japan was able to expand the monetary base very quickly …
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In this paper we investigate the comparative properties of empirically-estimated monetary models of the U.S. economy. We make use of a new data base of models designed for such investigations. We focus on three representative models: the Christiano, Eichenbaum, Evans (2005) model, the Smets and...
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We find that banks subject to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) create less liquidity per dollar of assets in the post …-off between lower liquidity creation and greater resilience from liquidity regulations …
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responsibilities. In April 2020, the Federal Reserve announced the establishment of the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) to help …
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In August of 2007, banks faced a freeze in funding liquidity from the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market. We … investigate how banks scrambled for liquidity in response to this freeze and its implications for corporate borrowing. Commercial …
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crisis is often attributed to corporate bond dealers' failure to provide liquidity. We investigate this common perception … using unique data on dealers' trading. We show that corporate bond dealers provided liquidity in response to major selling … activity by clients when the CDS-bond basis widened. Although providing liquidity, dealers did not trade aggressively enough to …
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We estimate the option value of municipal liquidity by studying bond market activity and public sector hiring decisions … eligibility population cutoffs introduced by the federal sector’s Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) to study the effects of an … emergency liquidity option on yields, primary debt issuance, and public sector employment. We find that while the announcement …
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The global financial crisis has lead to a renewed interest in discretionary fiscal stimulus. Advocates of discretionary measures emphasize that government spending can stimulate additional private spending the so-called Keynesian multiplier effect. Thus, we investigate whether the discretionary...
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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and great recession, many countries face substantial deficits and growing debts. In the United States, federal government outlays as a ratio to GDP rose substantially from about 19.5 percent before the crisis to over 24 percent after the crisis. In...
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