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With public debt soaring across the world, a growing concern is whether current debt levels are a harbinger of fiscal crises, thereby restricting the policy space in a downturn. The empirical evidence to date is however inconclusive, and the true cost of debt may be overstated if interest rates...
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on numerous historical documents, we show that liquidity ratios similar to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) were … mechanisms described by contemporary central bankers, in which an increase in the liquidity ratio has contractionary effects …
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The provision of foreign exchange liquidity by emerging market central banks during the global shock of 2008-09 departs … from the domestic liquidity lender of last resort role described by Bagehot in his classic ""Lombard Street."" This paper … documents and analyzes the foreign exchange liquidity providing measures of the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) in response to …
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All types of recessions, on average, not just those associated with financial and political crises (as in Cerra and Saxena, AER 2008), lead to permanent output losses. These findings have far-reaching conceptual and policy implications. A new paradigm of the business cycle needs to account for...
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