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Central-bank collateral policy governs the convertibility of assets into central-bank money provided directly by the central bank. Focusing on government bonds, we develop clean identification of variation in such convertibility by exploiting differential treatment of same-country government...
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on financial markets and the wider economy. They can, for example, bias the private provision of real liquidity and …
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collateral constraint helps maintain the stability at the cost of market liquidity supply …
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The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from...
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We argue that incentives to take equity risk ("equity incentives") only partially capture incentives to take asset risk ("asset incentives"). This is because leverage, while central to the theory of risk shifting, is not explicitly considered by equity incentives. Employing measures of asset...
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This paper proposes a positive theory of the links between banks' capitalisation and their liquidity risk taking, the … extent of fire-sale problems, and the severity of liquidity crises. In a basic framework with a single bank, we find that … banks' incentives to hold liquidity for precautionary reasons are increasing with their capital. In a continuum …
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well as, regulatory implications for a Lender of Last Resort in various liquidity scenarios …
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