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Benigno, Gianluca; Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2021

-Wicksellian paradigm. A general form of an aggregate-demand equation reveals a role for liquidity, as well as less effective movements in …

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Are banks passive liquidity backstops? : deposit rates and flows during the 2007-2009 crisis

Acharya, Viral V.; Mora, Nada - 2011

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How Do Global Banks Scramble for Liquidity? Evidence from the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Freeze of 2007

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

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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Managing Monetary Policy Normalization

Benigno, Gianluca; Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2022

We propose a new framework for monetary policy analysis to study monetary policy normalization when exiting a liquidity … trap. The optimal combination of reserves and interest rate policy requires an increase in liquidity (reserves) a few … tightening starts before the liftoff of the policy rate. Moreover, the withdrawal of liquidity takes place at a very slow pace …

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Monetary Easing, Leveraged Payouts and Lack of Investment

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

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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The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

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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The Financial (In)Stability Real Interest Rate, R**

Akinci, Ozge; Benigno, Gianluca; Del Negro, Marco; … - 2022

We introduce the concept of a financial stability real interest rate using a macroeconomic banking model with an occasionally binding financing constraint, as in Gertler and Kiyotaki (2010). The financial stability interest rate, r**, is the threshold interest rate that triggers the constraint...

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Exorbitant Privilege? Quantitative Easing and the Bond Market Subsidy of Prospective Fallen Angels

Acharya, Viral V.; Banerjee, Ryan; Crosignani, Matteo; … - 2022

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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Exorbitant Privilege? Quantitative Easing and the Bond Market Subsidy of Prospective Fallen Angels

Acharya, Viral V.; Banerjee, Ryan; Crosignani, Matteo; … - 2022

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013301918