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In a production economy with trade in financial markets motivated by the desire to share labor-income risk and to speculate, we show that speculation increases volatility of asset returns and investment growth, increases the equity risk premium, and reduces welfare. Regulatory measures, such as...
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Empirical evidence suggests that investments in research and development (R&D) by older and larger firms are more spread out internationally than R&D investments by younger and smaller firms. In this paper, I explore the quantitative implications of this type of heterogeneity by assuming that...
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schemes affect liquidity provision and asset prices. Investors face a trade-off between risk and return. At the benefit of a … liquidity provision to force traders to trade at a lower price. By contrast, bonus caps make traders value the asset less than … investors. This should encourage liquidity provision and decrease prices. In contrast to these predictions, we find that under …
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policy and therefore ultimately the real economy. In particular, it facilitates banks' liquidity management. This paper aims … at extending the literature which views interbank markets as mutual liquidity insurance mechanism by taking into account … persistence of liquidity shocks. Following a theory of long-term interbank funding a financial system which is modeled as a micro …
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liquidity premium. This approach gives a better estimate of the default premium than mid quotes, and it allows to disentangle … and compare the liquidity premium earned by the protection buyer and the protection seller. In contrast to other studies …, our model is structurally much simpler, while it also allows for correlation between liquidity and default premia, as …
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This paper studies the optimal maturity structure for government debt when markets for liquidity insurance are … in short and long maturities solves a liquidity insurance problem, but optimal yield curve policy is only possible if …
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