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allows banks in different regions to smooth local liquidity shocks by borrowing and lending on a world interbank market. We … show under which conditions financial integration induces banks to reduce their liquidity holdings and to shift their … portfolios towards more profitable but less liquid investments. Integration helps reallocate liquidity when different banks are …
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This paper presents an equilibrium model for the demand and supply of liquidity and its impact on asset prices and … liquidity and large price deviations from fundamentals. Moreover, market forces fail to lead to efficient supply of liquidity … efficiency consequences. For example, lowering the cost of supplying liquidity on the spot (e.g., through direct injection of …
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Liquidity production is a central role of banks. We show that, under idealized conditions, high leverage is optimal for … zero weight to the social value of liquidity, it is an inappropriately equity-biased baseline for assessing whether the …
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We analyze the link between creditor rights and firms' investment policies, proposing that stronger creditor rights in bankruptcy reduce corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis, we find that stronger creditor rights induce greater propensity of firms to engage in diversifying...
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conclusive evidence that they are positive, as theory predicts. This paper shows that the lack of empirical evidence is … consistent with theory if countries are in transition to FDI openness. Anticipated welfare gains lead to temporary declines in … reconciliation of theory and evidence is accomplished with a multicountry dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized with data …
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This paper explores the practice of mortgage refinancing in a dynamic competitive lending model with risky borrowers and costly default. We show that prepayment penalties improve welfare by ensuring longer-term lending contracts, which prevents the mortgage pools from becoming disproportionately...
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Affirmative action policies are practiced around the world. This paper explores the welfare economics of such policies. A model is proposed where heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, compete for positions in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient...
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We define and study transparency, credibility, and reputation in a model where the central bank's characteristics are unobservable to the private sector and are inferred from the policy outcome. A low-credibility bank optimally conducts a more inflationary policy than a high-credibility bank, in...
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Firm size follows Zipf's Law, a very fat-tailed distribution that implies a few large firms account for a disproportionate share of overall economic activity. This distribution of firm size is crucial for evaluating the welfare impact of economic policies such as barriers to entry or trade...
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We construct a model of growth based on endogenous technological change in a small, open economy. Entrepreneurs develop new intermediate products whenever the present value of potential profits exceeds the cost of R&D. Diversity of intermediates contributes to total factor productivity in the...
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