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Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2004

Most economists and observers place the lack of fiscal discipline at the core of the recent Argentine crisis. This begs the question of how countries like Belgium or Italy (pre-Maastricht) could run large fiscal deficits and accumulate debts far beyond those of Argentina, without experiencing...

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International Liquidity Management : Sterilization Policy in Illiquid Financial Markets

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems … liquidity management issues more generally …

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Liquidity Dependence and the Waxing and Waning of Central Bank Balance Sheets

Acharya, Viral V.; Chauhan, Rahul S.; Rajan, Raghuram Govind - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

in 2017, there was no commensurate shrinkage of these claims on liquidity. Consequently, the financial sector was left … more sensitive to potential liquidity shocks, with weaker-capitalized banks most exposed. This necessitated Fed liquidity … provision in September 2019 and again in March 2020. Liquidity-risk-exposed banks suffered the most drawdowns and the largest …

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A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM) : Safety Traps and Economic Policy

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2013

. Safety traps share many common features with conventional liquidity traps, but also exhibit important differences, in …

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The Degree of Judicial Enforcement and Credit Markets : Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2010

In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of better judicial enforcement on the probability of being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, conducted by the Institute for Research...

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Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2006

In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...

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Contingent Credit Under Stress

Acharya, Viral V.; Jager, Maximilian; Steffen, Sascha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

' provision of liquidity insurance in the form of credit lines, their significance in managing corporate liquidity, and the …

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Flight to Quality and Collective Risk Management

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2006

We present a model of flight to quality episodes that emphasizes systemic risk and the Knightian uncertainty surrounding these episodes. Agents make risk management decisions with incomplete knowledge. They understand their own shocks, but are uncertain of how correlated their shocks are with...

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The Internal Governance of Firms

Acharya, Viral V. - 2009

We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential reaction of subordinates. Internal governance can mitigate agency problems and ensure that firms have substantial value, even with little or no external governance by...

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Zombie Lending : Theoretical, International and Historical Perspectives

Acharya, Viral V.; Crosignani, Matteo; Eisert, Tim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper surveys the theory on zombie lending incentives and the consequences of zombie lending for the real economy. It also offers a historical perspective by reviewing the growing empirical evidence on zombie lending along three dimensions: (i) the role of under-capitalized banks, (ii)...

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