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This paper shows that individual beliefs on the effectiveness of formal and informal sources of risk sharing determine … access to private risk sharing networks. Moreover, we find that both types of trust associate positively with the probability … to take on financial risk for the purpose of becoming a homeowner and the related loan-to-value ratio. Our findings are …
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We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s-2007), and recent substantial increase (2008-2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence of...
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Labor's share of income has attracted interest in recent years reflecting its apparent decline. These falls, witnessed across many countries, are usually deemed undesirable. Any such assertion, however, begs the question of what is the socially optimal labor share. We address this question using...
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Does the level of deposits matter for bank fragility and efficiency? In a banking model with endogenous bank runs and a consumption-saving decision, we show that the level of deposits has opposite effects on bank fragility depending on the nature of bank runs. In an economy with panic-driven...
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We estimate the long- and short-run relationship between top income and wealth shares for France and the US since 1913. We find strong evidence for a long-run cointegration relationship governed by relative saving rates at the top. For both countries, we estimate a decline in the relative saving...
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We investigate, in the case of Germany, the positive correlation between the cyclical components of the corporate saving glut in the non-financial corporate sector and the current account surplus from a capital account perspective. Employing sign restrictions, our findings suggest that mostly...
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This paper shows that general equilibrium effects can partly rationalize the high correlation between saving and investment rates observed in OECD countries. We find that once controlling for general equilibrium effects the saving-retention coefficient remains high in the 70's but decreases...
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A crucial but often ignored element of inflation expectations is the amount of perceived inflation risk. This paper …
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This paper proposes a set of indicators relevant for the risk characteristics of covered bonds, as based on granular … cover pool and the payment structure. They offer unified risk metrics for the European covered bond universe, which ensures … granular risk indicators adds to the overall transparency of the market in the context of risk monitoring …
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We address the question to what extent a central bank can de-risk its balance sheet by unconventional monetary policy … operations. To this end, we propose a novel risk measurement framework to empirically study the time-variation in central bank … generated beneficial risk spill-overs across monetary policy operations, causing overall risk to be nonlinear in exposures. Some …
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