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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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Fiscal and Monetary Stabilization Policy at the Zero Lower Bound : Consequences of Limited Foresight
Woodford, Michael - 2020
This paper reconsiders the degree to which macroeconomic stabilization is possible when the zero lower bound is a relevant constraint on the effectiveness of conventional monetary policy, under an assumption of bounded rationality. In particular, we reconsider the potential role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481376
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Optimal Inflation Targeting under Alternative Fiscal Regimes
Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2006
Standard discussions of flexible inflation targeting as an optimal monetary policy abstract completely from the consequences of monetary policy for the government budget. But at least some of the countries now adopting inflation targeting have substantial difficulty in controlling fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466536
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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap
Eggertsson, Gauti B. - 2004
In previous work (Eggertsson and Woodford, 2003), we characterized the optimal conduct of monetary policy when a real disturbance causes the natural rate of interest to be temporarily negative, so that the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates binds, and showed that commitment to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467849
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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy : A Linear Quadratic Approach
Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2003
We propose an integrated treatment of the problems of optimal monetary and fiscal policy, for an economy in which prices are sticky and the only available sources of government revenue are distorting taxes. Our linear-quadratic approach allows us to nest both conventional analyses of optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468792
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463081
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Liquidity Risk of Corporate Bond Returns : A Conditional Approach
Acharya, Viral V. - 2010
We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period … 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices … default), suggest the existence of time-varying liquidity risk of corporate bond returns conditional on episodes of flight to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462262
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Rollover Risk and Market Freezes
Acharya, Viral V. - 2010
The crisis of 2007-09 has been characterized by a sudden freeze in the market for short-term, secured borrowing. We present a model that can explain a sudden collapse in the amount that can be borrowed against finitely-lived assets with little credit risk. The borrowing in this model takes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462978