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Predatory trading may affect the incentives for banks to raise liquidity in times of financial distress. In these … crises: by altering the signal value of borrowing, this facility supports the injection of liquidity into distressed banks …
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The effective liquidity supply of the economy—the weighted-sum of all assets that serve as media of exchange … trades to the Mortensen–Pissarides model. An increase in public liquidity through a higher supply of real government bonds … raises the real interest rate, crowding out private liquidity and increasing unemployment. If unemployment is inefficiently …
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variations in how financial frictions are modeled and whether financial shocks affect asset liquidity or firms׳ collateral …
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selection problem and, consequently, the interbank asset market provides insufficient liquidity. Investment is inefficiently low … reduce liquidity and may be counterproductive as a policy for increasing investment. Paradoxically, if it is directed to … firms with the greatest liquidity needs, an equity injection will reduce investment further. Asset purchase programs, like …
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What are the effects of cyclical fiscal policy on industry growth? We show that industries with a relatively heavier reliance on external finance or lower asset tangibility tend to grow faster (in terms of both value added and of labor productivity growth) in countries that implement fiscal...
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Analyses of a large retail scanner price data set reveal a new and surprising regularity – small price increases occur more frequently than small price decreases for price changes of up to 10¢. That is, we find asymmetric price adjustment “in the small.” Furthermore, it turns out that...
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Can both short and long-term interest rates be targeted independently? Can the target of the term structure help solve the problem of multiplicity of equilibria that occurs when only the short rate is targeted? Both questions are addressed, and the answer is yes to both.
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Asset-return implications of nominal price and wage rigidities are analyzed in general equilibrium. Nominal rigidities, combined with permanent productivity shocks, increase expected excess returns on production claims. This is mainly explained by consumption dynamics driven by rigidity-induced...
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Using Bank of England voting data, we show empirically that members’ votes are driven by heterogeneous individual assessments of the economy as well as their individual policy preferences. Estimates indicate that internal committee members form more precise assessments than externals and are...
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Adjustments in bank leverage act as the linchpin in the monetary transmission mechanism that works through fluctuations in risk-taking. In the international context, we find evidence of monetary policy spillovers on cross-border bank capital flows and the US dollar exchange rate through the...
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