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Most economists and observers place the lack of fiscal discipline at the core of the recent Argentine crisis. This begs the question of how countries like Belgium or Italy (pre-Maastricht) could run large fiscal deficits and accumulate debts far beyond those of Argentina, without experiencing...
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Financial assets provide return and liquidity services to their holders. However, during severe financial crises many … asset prices plummet, destroying their liquidity provision function at the worst possible time. In this paper we present a … not control or understand. The liquidity of the market quickly vanishes and a financial crisis ensues. The model exhibits …
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emerging economy, and those affecting borrowing from foreign lenders. This 'dual liquidity' model offers a parsimonious …
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play a key role in benefiting from the spillovers of these policies during risk-off episodes. Countries like Japan, which … already had very low long rates, benefited less. However, Japan still benefitted from the reduced persistence of risk …
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Emerging economies experience sudden stops in capital inflows. As we have argued in Caballero and Krishnamurthy (2002), having access to monetary policy during these sudden stops is useful, but mostly for insurance' rather than for aggregate demand reasons. In this environment, a central bank...
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