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This paper examines households' financial fragility by looking at their capacity to come up with $2,000 in 30 days. Using data from the 2009 TNS Global Economic Crisis survey, we document widespread financial weakness in the United States: Approximately one quarter of Americans report that they...
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liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …
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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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liquidity? US government debt has been liquid and safe, and it is supplied in sufficient quantity. But it has given a low return …
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This paper examines the implicit health insurance households receive from the ability to declare bankruptcy. Exploiting cross-state and within-state variation in asset exemption law, I show that uninsured households with greater seizable assets make higher out-of-pocket medical payments,...
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The paper presents a model of a monetary economy where there are differences in liquidity across assets. Money … on assets, reflecting their differences in liquidity. The model is used, first, to investigate how aggregate activity and … asset prices fluctuate with shocks to productivity and liquidity; second, to examine what role government policy might have …
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Using an extensive new data set on corporate bond defaults in the U.S. from 1866 to 2010, we study the macroeconomic effects of bond market crises and contrast them with those resulting from banking crises. During the past 150 years, the U.S. has experienced many severe corporate default crises...
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