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When limited commitment hinders unsecured credit, assets help by serving as collateral. We study models where assets differ in pledgability - the extent to which they can be used to secure loans - and hence liquidity. Although many previous analyses of imperfect credit focus on producers, we...
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We analyze a new class of equilibria that emerges when a central bank conducts monetary policy by setting an interest … equilibria involve a run on the central bank's interest target, whereby money grows fast, private agents borrow as much as … possible against the central bank, and the shadow interest rate is different from the policy target. We argue that these …
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future short-term interest rates, not just the current level of the overnight rate. Thus, interest rates with a year or more … have been affected by the zero lower bound. In this paper, we measure the effects of the zero lower bound on interest rates … of any maturity by comparing the sensitivity of those interest rates to macroeconomic news when short-term interest rates …
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targets. Because filtered estimates are based on current and past observations, such Taylor rules appear to have an interest …
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by the interaction between the reactivity of real short term interest rates to the business cycle and industry …
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Identification problems arise naturally in forward-looking models when agents observe more than economists. We illustrate the problem in several New Keynesian and macro-finance models in which the Taylor rule includes a shock unseen by economists. We show that identification of the rule's...
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We develop a model of the market for federal funds that explicitly accounts for its two distinctive features: banks have to search for a suitable counterparty, and once they meet, both parties negotiate the size of the loan and the repayment. The theory is used to answer a number of positive and...
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The modern view of monetary policy stresses its role in shaping the entire yield curve of interest rates in order to … to the public, and two of these banks have even begun publishing their internal interest rate projections. We examine the … communication of interest rate projections can help shape financial market expectations and may improve macroeconomic performance. …
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responses of economic agents to monetary shocks, we derive a system of equations relating the term structure of interest rates … term structure of interest rates could be implemented with certain time lags due to path-dependency of interest rates. …
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interest rate path deviated significantly from what this two decade experience would suggest is appropriate. A counterfactual …
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