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This paper studies the synchronization of financial cycles across 17 advanced economies over the past 150 years. The comovement in credit, house prices, and equity prices has reached historical highs in the past three decades. The sharp increase in the comovement of global equity markets is...
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We develop a two-country model in which currency and bond markets are populated by different investor clienteles, and segmentation is partly overcome by global arbitrageurs with limited capital. Our model accounts for the empirically documented violations of Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) and...
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liquidity effects. This paper discusses the basic frictions and mechanisms underlying this new class of models and investigates … long-lasting, quantitatively significant liquidity effects, as well as persistent increases in aggregate economic activity …
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"Intermediary asset pricing'' understands asset prices and risk premia through the lens of frictions in financial intermediation. Perhaps motivated by phenomena in the financial crisis, intermediary asset pricing has been one of the fastest growing areas of research in finance. This article...
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Asset prices and the equity premium might reflect doubts and pessimism. Introducing these features in an otherwise standard New-Keynesian model changes in a quite substantial way the nature of the policy that maximizes the welfare of the consumers in the model. First, following productivity...
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We present a model to study the dynamics of risk premia during crises in asset markets where the marginal investor is a financial intermediary. Intermediaries face a constraint on raising equity capital. When the constraint binds, so that intermediaries' equity capital is scarce, risk premia...
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the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems … liquidity management issues more generally …
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prices and standard measures of financial liquidity, such as bid-ask spreads, trade volume, and the incentives of dealers to … monetary policy as well as the microstructure of the market where it is traded. These liquidity considerations imply a positive … anomalous. The theory also exhibits rational expectations equilibria with recurring belief driven events that resemble liquidity …
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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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effects can arise, so that less liquidity and a higher cost for finance can reinforce each other in a contagious spiral. I … document the remarkable rise in the premium that investors placed on liquidity during the crisis. Next, I show how these issues …
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