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This paper evaluates ways to protect highly dollarized banking systems from systemic liquidity runs (such as the ones … the use of limited dollar liquidity to ensure the convertibility of transactional deposits with a mechanism that … automatically limits the convertibility of dollar term deposits once triggered by a predetermined decline in banks'' liquidity …
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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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on numerous historical documents, we show that liquidity ratios similar to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) were … mechanisms described by contemporary central bankers, in which an increase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 …, because it reduces the quantity of assets banks can pledge as collateral. This effect, akin to quantity rationing, is more …
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In global financial centers, short-term market rates are effectively determined in the pledged collateral market, where … banks and other financial institutions exchange collateral (such as bonds and equities) for money. Furthermore, the use of … long-dated securities as collateral for short tenors-or example, in securities-lending and repo markets, and prime …
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Central bank collateral policies came under pressure with the 2007-08 financial market crisis. This paper addresses the … rationale for and constraints in taking collateral, and recent practices in different collateral frameworks. It then considers … the risks of adverse selection. The paper concludes that (i) the collateral framework needs to include market incentives …
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A loss of solvency increases central bank vulnerability, reducing the credibility of commitments to defend a nominal regime, including an exchange rate peg. This paper develops a methodology to assess central bank solvency and exposure to risk. The measure, based on Value-at-Risk, is frequently...
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. Liquidity stress tests have been applied in parallel to and independently from solvency stress tests, based on scenarios which … testing of solvency and liquidity: our approach exploits the mechanisms underlying the solvency-liquidity nexus to derive … relations between solvency shocks and liquidity shocks. These relations are then used to model liquidity and solvency risk in a …
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The paper presents a framework to integrate liquidity and solvency stress tests. An empirical study based on European … bond trading data finds that asset sales haircuts depend on the total amount of assets sold and general liquidity … conditions in the market. To account for variations in market liquidity, the study uses Markov regime-switching models and links …
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An asset bubble relaxes collateral constraints and increases borrowing by credit-constrained agents. At the same time … of a binding collateral constraint. If debt is elevated, policy should lean against the bubble more aggressively to …
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The shift to inflation targeting has contributed to the relatively low inflation observed in some emerging market economies although, as noted by many economists, the preconditions required for a successful implementation were not in place. The existence of managed exchange rate regimes, a...
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