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We propose a broad measure of liquidity for the overall financial market by exploiting its connection with the amount … more "noise.'' As such, noise in the Treasury market can be informative and we expect this information about liquidity to … -- high liquidity and low credit risk. Indeed, we find that our "noise'' measure captures episodes of liquidity crises of …
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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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We examine how liquidity and asset prices are affected by the following market imperfections: asymmetric information …
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This paper presents an equilibrium model for the demand and supply of liquidity and its impact on asset prices and … liquidity and large price deviations from fundamentals. Moreover, market forces fail to lead to efficient supply of liquidity … efficiency consequences. For example, lowering the cost of supplying liquidity on the spot (e.g., through direct injection of …
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In this paper, we develop an equilibrium model for stock market liquidity and its impact on asset prices when constant … prevents them from synchronizing their trades and hence gives rise to endogenous order imbalances and the need for liquidity …. Moreover, the endogenous liquidity need, when it occurs, is characterized by excessive selling of significant magnitudes. Such …
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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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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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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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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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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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