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This paper investigates the quantitative implications of two business cycle models in which aggregate fluctuations arise in response to variations in the process of financial intermediation. In the first, fundamental shocks in the capital accumulation process lead to fluctuations in the real...
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"Intermediary asset pricing'' understands asset prices and risk premia through the lens of frictions in financial intermediation. Perhaps motivated by phenomena in the financial crisis, intermediary asset pricing has been one of the fastest growing areas of research in finance. This article...
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effectiveness of a variety of central bank policies, including reducing intermediaries' borrowing costs, infusing equity capital …
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The importance of financial markets and international capital flows have increased greatly since the 1990s. How does this affect the effectiveness of monetary policy? We analyse the transmission of monetary policy in two important financial centres, the United States and the United Kingdom....
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Financial systems are inherently fragile because of the very function which makes them valuable: liquidity transformation. Regulatory reforms can strengthen the financial system and decrease the risk of liquidity crises, but they cannot eliminate it completely. This leaves monetary policy with a...
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Over the past twenty years, macroeconomic performance has improved markedly in industrialized and developing countries alike. Both inflation and real growth are more stable now than they were in the 1980s. This stability has been accompanied by dramatic changes in financial structure. We examine...
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We measure the repo funding extended by money market funds (MMF) and securities lenders to the shadow banking system …, raising credit terms to their borrowers. The picture that emerges from these findings looks less like a traditional bank run …
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among money, credit and nonfinancial economic activity. Data for the United States since World War II show that the volume … of outstanding credit is as closely related to economic activity as is the stock of money, and moreover that neither … money nor credit is sufficient to account fully for the effect of financial markets in determining real economic activity …
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interest-rate rule, and the money market and financial institutions are typically not even modeled. Critics contend that these …
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The paper sets out and analyzes a simple model of money, banking, and price level determination. The model is first … to analyze price level determination in an economy that becomes an inside money economy as high-powered money goes out of … use. The paper concludes by discussing the major unresolved questions about banking, money, and price level determination …
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