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Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior : New Evidence from the Labor Market
Card, David - 2006
This paper presents new tests of the permanent income hypothesis and other widely used models of household behavior using data from the labor market. We estimate the "excess sensitivity" of job search behavior to cash-on-hand using sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466022
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247971
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Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy Effects : A Review of the Debate
McCallum, Bennett T. - 1985
This paper reviews empirical findings, econometric issues,and theoretical results bearing upon the "monetary vs. fiscal policy" debate that began with the 1963 Friedrnan-Meiselman study.The main substantive conclusions are not very dramatic.The clearest is that an open-market increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477529
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Interest Rate Implications for Fiscal and Monetary Policies : A Postscript on the Government Budget Constraint
Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1982
An earlier paper by the author investigated the quantitative implications, for the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies, of a model treating the determination of long-term interest rates by explicitly imposing the market clearing equilibrium condition that the quantity of bonds issued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478225
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The Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates : Implications for Monetary and Fiscal Policies
Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1979
The object of this paper is to bring to bear on financial-non financial interactions a richer approach to modeling the determination of long-term interest rates. in a series of previous papers. I have developed an alternative model based explicitly on the truism that any factor affecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478782
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Is the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level Learnable?
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2003
This paper presents a prototype model for development of the fiscal theory of the price level.' In this simple setting, the fiscal theory's distinctiveness relies upon adoption of a bubble solution, rather than the rational-expectations fundamentals solution. The paper then shows that the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468736
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Inflation Targeting and the Liquidity Trap
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2001
This paper considers whether 'liquidity trap' issues have important bearing on the desirability of inflation targeting … perspective, a quantitative open-economy model is developed and the likelihood of encountering a liquidity trap is explored for … several policy rules. Also, it is emphasized that, if the usual interest rate instrument is immobilized by a liquidity trap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470499
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Indeterminacy, Bubbles, and the Fiscal Theory of Price Level Determination
McCallum, Bennett T. - 1998
The recently-developed fiscal theory of price level determination contends that there is an important class of policy rules in which there exists a unique rational expectations solution that shows the price level to be dependent upon fiscal policy and independent of monetary variables. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472349
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463019
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437040