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We consider how fear of model misspecification on the part of the planner and/or the households affects welfare gains from optimal macroprudential taxes in an economy with occasionally binding collateral constraints as in Bianchi (2011). On the one hand, there exist welfare gains from...
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), the model with robustness generates ambiguity premia in bond spreads that can explain most of what the literature has … design of the state-contingent bond and show how it varies with the level of robustness. Our findings rationalize the little …
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unknown future basket weights optimally forecasted from past exchange rate data? And, second, how is risk—in terms of the …
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suggest that idiosyncratic risk is: higher at times of large return outcomes for the asset class as a whole; positively … autocorrelated; and correlated across different asset classes. The implications for risk management are discussed …
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and then asses how they affect an emerging economy whose interest rate is affected by a world risk-free rate and a risk …
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We study a banking model in which banks invest in a riskless asset and compete in both deposit and risky loan markets. The model predicts that as competition increases, both loans and assets increase; however, the effect on the loans-to-assets ratio is ambiguous. Similarly, as competition...
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International macroeconomic policy coordination is generally considered to be made less likely—and less profitable—by the presence of uncertainty about how the economy works. The present paper provides a counter-example, in which increased uncertainty about portfolio preference of investors...
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This paper assesses liquidity risk for the United States (U.S.) bond mutual funds industry and performs a range of …
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This paper develops a public education scheme that takes uncertainty aspects of private educational investments explicitly into account. In the author’s framework, the social merits of public education schemes are related to the lack of markets in which students can insure against educational...
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Investors seek to hedge against interest rate risk by taking long or short positions on bonds of different maturities …. We study changes in risk taking behavior in a low interest rate environment by estimating a market stochastic discount … literature. We provide evidence that non-linearities arise from hedging strategies of investors exposed to interest rate risk …
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