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Using a central bank legislation database, this paper documents and analyzes worldwide institutional arrangements for … central bank lending to the government and identifies international practices. Key findings are: (i) in most advanced …
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This paper discusses the challenging question of whether central banks should use treasury bills or central bank bills … bank bills, the paper argues that treasury bills are the first best option especially because positive externalities for …) operational independence for the central bank; (ii) market development; and (iii) the strengthening of the transmission of …
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In an indirect monetary policy framework, open market operations become the central bank’s main instrument. In the … design of supporting arrangements to ensure the central bank’s operational autonomy when using the instrument, are crucial …
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Motivated by the recent increase in domestic banks' holdings of domestic sovereign debt (i.e., home bias) in the European periphery, this paper analyzes implications of banks' home bias for the sovereign's debt sustainability. The main findings, based on a sample of advanced (AM) and emerging...
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We use the rise and dispersion of sovereign spreads to tell the story of the emergence and escalation of financial tensions within the eurozone. This process evolved through three stages. Following the onset of the Subprime crisis in July 2007, spreads rose but mainly due to common global...
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of recommendations regarding government policies and individual bank practices to manage interest rate risk …
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bond returns are high. At the bank level, bondholdings correlate negatively with subsequent lending during sovereign …
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due to bank funding shortages from the sovereign debt crisis were a major factor behind the lending slowdown in late 2011 …
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