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This paper addresses the possible role of bond prices as operating or intermediate targets for monetary policy. The paper begins with a brief review of the mechanisms through which a central bank could, in theory, influence long-term interest rates, and continues with a brief narrative overview...
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The paper generalizes the Taylor principle---the proposition that central banks can stabilize the macroeconomy by raising their interest rate instrument more than one-for-one in response to higher inflation---to an environment in which reaction coefficients in the monetary policy rule evolve...
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provided liquidity against a range of assets during 2008-09. Dealers with lower equity returns and greater leverage prior to … liquidity in explaining dealer behavior. The results suggest that both financial performance and balance sheet liquidity play a …
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sensitivity of these strains to risk sentiment deterioration. Cross-border flows through banks for excess liquidity support … facilities leaves longer-term patterns of cross-border liquidity and capital flows broadly unchanged. While official sector … liquidity hoarding and “dash for cash” activity are expected to be lower with access to these facilities, initial evidence does …
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Building on the facility design and application experience from the period of the global financial crisis, in March 2020 the Federal Reserve eased the terms on its standing swap lines in collaboration with other central banks, reactivated temporary swap agreements, and then introduced the new...
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Using a simple general equilibrium model, we argue that it would be appropriate for a central bank with a large balance sheet composed of long-duration nominal assets to have access to, and be willing to ask for, support for its balance sheet by the fiscal authority. Otherwise its ability to...
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’s interventions during different stages of the crisis in terms of this literature. We interpret the Fed’s early-stage liquidity … periods of high liquidity risk. In contrast, reductions in the Fed’s liquidity supply in 2009 did not increase the spread. Our … analysis has implications for the impact on asset prices of a potential withdrawal of liquidity supply by the Fed. -- Financial …
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We develop a model in which financial intermediaries hold liquidity to protect themselves from shocks. Depending on … parameter values, banks may choose to hold too much or too little liquidity on aggregate compared with the socially optimal … underinsurance against liquidity choice. The model therefore provides a unified framework for thinking, on the one hand, about policy …
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