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We study liquidity transfers between banks through the interbank borrowing and asset sale markets when, (i) surplus …) compared to outside markets, or is prepared to extend potentially loss-making loans. The public provision of liquidity to banks …, in fact its mere credibility, can thus improve the private allocation of liquidity among banks. This rationale for …
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We study liquidity transfers between banks through the interbank borrowing and asset sale markets when(i)surplus banks … providing liquidity have market power, ii)there are frictions in the lending market due to moral hazard, and(iii)assets are bank … markets, or is prepared to extend potentially loss-making loans. The public provision of liquidity to banks, in fact its mere …
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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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What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? In this paper, we develop a model where myopic governments seek electoral popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when they are poor because they would lose access to debt markets and be...
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This paper studies a model in which a low monetary policy rate lowers the cost of capital for entrepreneurs, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase payouts to equity. Whereas such leveraged payouts...
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We analyze how regulatory constraints on household leverage—in the form of loan-to-income and loan-to-value limits—affect residential mortgage credit and house prices as well as other asset classes not directly targeted by the limits. Supervisory loan level data suggest that mortgage credit...
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We document capital misallocation in the U.S. investment-grade (IG) corporate bond market, driven by quantitative easing (QE). Prospective fallen angels—risky firms just above the IG rating cutoff—enjoyed subsidized bond financing since 2009, especially when the scale of QE purchases peaked...
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We document capital misallocation in the U.S. investment-grade (IG) corporate bond market, driven by quantitative easing (QE). Prospective fallen angels–risky firms just above the IG rating cutoff–enjoyed subsidized bond financing since 2009, especially when the scale of QE purchases peaked...
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between market liquidity and funding liquidity and formalizes the de-leveraging offinancial institutions observed during …
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