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Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of adjustment that are usually absent from this view using microdata in the $10 trillion U.S. residential mortgage market. We first document the limits of the shadow bank...
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tradeoff between profiting from lending and incurring greater liquidity risk. We consider two applications of the theory, one …We develop a tractable model of banks' liquidity management and the credit channel of monetary policy. Banks finance … importance of liquidity frictions and the functioning of interbank markets for the conduct of monetary policy …
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differ in pledgability - the extent to which they can be used to secure loans - and hence liquidity. Although many previous …-pricing theory, is calibrated to analyze the effects of monetary policy and financial innovation. We show that inflation can raise …
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provided by the uniform squeeze in liquidity, which affected all banks in our sample. We study the first link in the … liquidity …
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the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems … liquidity management issues more generally …
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liquidity effects. This paper discusses the basic frictions and mechanisms underlying this new class of models and investigates … long-lasting, quantitatively significant liquidity effects, as well as persistent increases in aggregate economic activity …
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We show empirically that banks' exposure to interest rate risk, or income gap, plays a crucial role in monetary policy transmission. In a first step, we show that banks typically retain a large exposure to interest rates that can be predicted with income gap. Secondly, we show that income gap...
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This paper surveys recent work that relates to the "lending" view of monetary policy transmission. It has three main goals: 1) to explain why it is important to distinguish between the lending and "money" views of policy transmission; 2) to outline the microeconomic conditions that are needed to...
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The 'credit channel' theory of monetary policy transmission holds that informational frictions in credit markets worsen … credit aggregates are not valid tests of this theory …
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are real in theory, but remote in practice today …
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