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credit easing, defined as a combination of lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit …
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ensuring that liquidity would be distributed to those institutions that needed it most. Conceptually, this meant America …
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While the global financial crisis was centered in the United States, it led to a surprising appreciation in the dollar, suggesting global dollar illiquidity. In response, the Federal Reserve partnered with other central banks to inject dollars into the international financial system. Empirical...
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In this paper we study European banks' demand for short-term funds (liquidity) during the summer 2007 subprime market …-turmoil liquidity costs, as estimated by our model, are predictive of their post-turmoil liquidity costs, and that there is considerable …
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' provision of liquidity insurance in the form of credit lines, their significance in managing corporate liquidity, and the …
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collateral is scarce. We call this process shadow banking. A rise in uncertainty raises demand for crash-proof liquidity, forcing … liquidity supply to contract, discount rates and collateral premia spike, prices and investment fall. The model produces slow …We build a macroeconomic model that centers on liquidity transformation in the financial sector. Intermediaries …
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We study a production economy with multiple sectors financed by issuing securities to agents who face capital constraints. Binding capital constraints propagate business cycles, and a reduction of the interest rate can increase the required return of high-haircut assets since it can increase the...
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-and-repurchase (repo) contracts. Exemption from an automatic stay in bankruptcy enables financial intermediaries to raise greater liquidity … and induces entry of intermediaries with higher leverage during normal times. This liquidity creation occurs, however, at … the cost of ex-post inefficiency when there are adverse aggregate shocks to the fundamental quality of collateral …
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This article assesses the extent to which government-administered financial shocks and lower interest rates can account for the massive accumulation of bank excess reserves in the Great Depression. Both factors are shown to be statistically significant. Financial shocks did exert astatistically...
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During the contraction from 1929 through 1933, the Federal Reserve System tracked changes in the status of all banks operating in the United States and determined the cause of each bank suspension. This essay introduces quarterly series derived from that hitherto dormant data and presents...
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