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Interpreting the Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy of 2007-09

Reis, Ricardo - 2010

compares the Federal Reserve's actions with the literature on optimal policy in a liquidity trap. The theory suggests that, to … securities markets can restore liquidity with fewer government funds than extending credit to the originators of loans …

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Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures

Hall, Brian J. - 1998

Why is the cost of resolving insurance company failures so high? Evidence in this paper suggests that the state insurance regulatory bodies in charge of the liquidation process turn over an average of only 33 cents for each $1.00 of pre-insolvency assets to the guaranty funds (the state agencies...

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A New Bankruptcy Procedure that Uses Multiple Auctions

Hart, Oliver - 1997

We develop a new bankruptcy procedure that makes use of multiple auctions. The procedure" is designed to work even when capital markets do not function well (for example in developing" economies, or in economies in transition) -- although it can be used in all economies."

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The Moral Hazard of Insuring the Insurers

Bohn, James G. - 1997

State guaranty funds are quasi-governmental agencies that provide insurance to policyholders against the risk of insurance company failure. But insurance provided by guaranty funds, like all insurance, creates moral hazard problems, especially for companies that are insolvent or near-insolvent....

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Default and Renegotiation : A Dynamic Model of Debt

Hart, Oliver - 1997

We analyze the role of debt in persuading an entrepreneur to pay out cash flows, rather than to divert them. In the first part of the paper we study the optimal debt contract -- specifically, the trade-off between the size of the loan and the repayment -- under the assumption that some debt...

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The Myth of the Patient Japanese : Corporate Myopia and Financial Distress in Japan and the US

Hall, Brian J. - 1996

It is widely believed that the stock-market oriented US financial system forces corporate managers to behave myopically relative to their Japanese counterparts, who operate in a bank-based system. We hypothesize that if US firms are more myopic than Japanese firms, then episodes of financial...

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Property and Casualty Solvency Funds as a Tax and Social Insurance System

Bohn, James - 1995

When a Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance company becomes insolvent, solvent insurance companies are forced to pay assessments (a form of taxation) to state guarantee funds ('solvency funds') in order to protect the policyholders of the failed companies. We produce estimates of the costs to...

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The Economics of Bankruptcy Reform

Aghion, Philippe - 1992

We propose a new bankruptcy procedure. Initially, a firm's debts are cancelled, and cash and non-cash bids are solicited for the 'new" (all-equity) firm. Former claimants are given shares, or options to buy shares, in the new firm on the basis of absolute priority. Options are exercised once the...

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Different Types of Central Bank Insolvency and the Central Role of Seignorage

Reis, Ricardo - 2015

A central bank is insolvent if its plans imply a Ponzi scheme on reserves so the price level becomes infinity. If the central bank enjoys fiscal support, in the form of a dividend rule that pays out net income every period, including when it is negative, it can never become insolvent...

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Liquidity, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy

Kiyotaki, Nobuhiro - 2012

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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