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allows banks in different regions to smooth local liquidity shocks by borrowing and lending on a world interbank market. We … show under which conditions financial integration induces banks to reduce their liquidity holdings and to shift their … portfolios towards more profitable but less liquid investments. Integration helps reallocate liquidity when different banks are …
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We analyze the link between creditor rights and firms' investment policies, proposing that stronger creditor rights in bankruptcy reduce corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis, we find that stronger creditor rights induce greater propensity of firms to engage in diversifying...
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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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Liquidity production is a central role of banks. We show that, under idealized conditions, high leverage is optimal for … zero weight to the social value of liquidity, it is an inappropriately equity-biased baseline for assessing whether the …
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"We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...
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This paper explores the implications of the European single currency within a simple sticky price intertemporal model. The main issue we focus on is how the euro may alter the responsiveness of consumer prices to exchange rate changes. Our central conjectures is that the acceptance of the euro...
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of theory and empirical evidence on gross job flows and on financial and labor market rents, we find that, cumulatively …
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We study the consequences of hospital competition for Medicare beneficiaries' heart attack care from 1985 to 1994. We examine how relatively exogenous determinants of hospital choice such as travel distances influence the competitiveness of hospital markets, and how hospital competition...
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We explore the effects of environmental taxes that imprecisely target pollution. A review of actual policies indicates few (if any) examples of a true tax on pollution. More typically, environmental taxes target an input or output that is correlated with pollution. We construct a simple...
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In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a brief review of antitrust legislation. We then discuss whether and how health care is different from other industries in ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The...
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