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Most economists and observers place the lack of fiscal discipline at the core of the recent Argentine crisis. This begs the question of how countries like Belgium or Italy (pre-Maastricht) could run large fiscal deficits and accumulate debts far beyond those of Argentina, without experiencing...
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the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems … liquidity management issues more generally …
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. Safety traps share many common features with conventional liquidity traps, but also exhibit important differences, in …
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In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...
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We present a model of flight to quality episodes that emphasizes systemic risk and the Knightian uncertainty surrounding these episodes. Agents make risk management decisions with incomplete knowledge. They understand their own shocks, but are uncertain of how correlated their shocks are with...
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Financial assets provide return and liquidity services to their holders. However, during severe financial crises many … asset prices plummet, destroying their liquidity provision function at the worst possible time. In this paper we present a … not control or understand. The liquidity of the market quickly vanishes and a financial crisis ensues. The model exhibits …
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emerging economy, and those affecting borrowing from foreign lenders. This 'dual liquidity' model offers a parsimonious …
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