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We implement a new approach for the identification of news shocks about future technology. In a VAR featuring a measure of aggregate technology and several forward-looking variables, we identify the news shock as the shock orthogonal to technology innovations that best explains future variation...
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Estimating the liquidity differential between inflation-indexed and nominal bond yields, we separately test for time …-varying real rate risk premia, inflation risk premia, and liquidity premia in U.S. and U.K. bond markets. We find strong, model … to quantitatively similar degrees. The estimated liquidity premium between U.S. inflation-indexed and nominal yields is …
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Dun's Review began publishing monthly data on bankruptcies by branch of business during the 1890s. This essay reconstructs that series, links it to its successors, and discusses how it can be used for economic analysis
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when countries cooperate in the face of a "global liquidity trap" - i.e., a situation where the two countries are … simultaneously caught in liquidity traps. Compared to the closed economy case, a notable feature of the optimal policy in the face of … a global liquidity trap is its international dependence. Whether or not a country's nominal interest rate is hitting the …
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. Such a funding-liquidity crisis gives rise to "bases," that is, price gaps between securities with identical cash-flows but …
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We quantify the effects of lending and balance sheet channels on corporate investment during large crises in emerging markets. The depreciated currency creates investment opportunities in the tradable sector but firms might be financially constrained due to: 1) a deterioration of their balance...
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We propose a broad measure of liquidity for the overall financial market by exploiting its connection with the amount … more "noise.'' As such, noise in the Treasury market can be informative and we expect this information about liquidity to … -- high liquidity and low credit risk. Indeed, we find that our "noise'' measure captures episodes of liquidity crises of …
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We calculate the present value of state pension liabilities under existing policies, and separately under policy changes that would affect pension payouts including cost of living adjustments (COLAs), retirement ages, and buyout schedules for early retirement. Liabilities if plans were frozen as...
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We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period … 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices … default), suggest the existence of time-varying liquidity risk of corporate bond returns conditional on episodes of flight to …
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