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Bank liquidity, interbank markets, and monetary policy

Freixas, Xavier; Martin, Antoine; Skeie, David - 2009

A major lesson of the recent financial crisis is that the interbank lending market is crucial for banks that face uncertainty regarding their liquidity needs. This paper examines the efficiency of the interbank lending market in allocating funds and the optimal policy of a central bank in...

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Gazing at r-star : a hysteresis perspective

Beaudry, Paul; Kartashova, Katya; Meh, Césaire Assah - 2023 - Last updated: January 12, 2023

Many explanations for the decline in real interest rates over the last 30 years point to the role that population aging or rising income inequality plays in increasing the long-run aggregate demand for assets. Notwithstanding the importance of such factors, the starting point of this paper is to...

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The role of bank capital in the propagation of shocks

Meh, Césaire Assah (contributor); Moran, Kevin (contributor) - 2008

Recent events in financial markets have underlined the importance of analyzing the link between the financial health of banks and real economic activity. This paper contributes to this analysis by constructing a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the balance sheet of banks affects the...

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Real effects of price stability with endogenous nominal indexation

Meh, Césaire Assah; Quadrini, Vincenzo; Terajima, Yaz - 2009

We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because nominal prices are observed with delay as in Jovanovic & Ueda (1997). More constrained firms sign contracts that are less indexed to the nominal price and, as a result, their...

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Bank leverage regulation and macroeconomic dynamics

Christensen, Ian; Meh, Césaire Assah; Moran, Kevin - 2011

This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and economic cycles and examines its interaction with monetary policy. The framework used is a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with banks and bank capital, in which...

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Evaluating the quality of fed funds lending estimates produced from fedwire payments data

Kovner, Anna; Skeie, David - 2013

A number of empirical analyses of interbank lending rely on indirect inferences from individual interbank transactions extracted from payments data using algorithms. In this paper, we conduct an evaluation to assess the ability of identifying overnight U.S. fed funds activity from Fedwire®...

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Precautionary reserves and the interbank market

Ashcraft, Adam; McAndrews, James; Skeie, David - 2009

Liquidity hoarding by banks and extreme volatility of the fed funds rate have been widely seen as severely disrupting the interbank market and the broader financial system during the 2007-08 financial crisis. Using data on intraday account balances held by banks at the Federal Reserve and...

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Financial intermediation, liquidity and inflation

Chiu, Jonathan (contributor); … - 2008

This paper develops a search-theoretic model to study the interaction between banking and monetary policy and how this interaction affects the allocation and welfare. Regarding how banking affects the welfare costs of inflation: First, we find that, with banking, inflation generates smaller...

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The welfare cost of inflation revisited : the role of financial innovation and household heterogeneity

Cao, Shutao; Meh, Césaire Assah; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - 2018

We document that, across households, the money consumption ratio increases with age and decreases with consumption, and … that there has been a large increase in the money consumption ratio during the recent era of very low interest rates. We … construct an overlapping generations (OLG) model of money holdings for transaction purposes subject to age (older households use …

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A note on bank lending in times of large bank reserves

Martin, Antoine; McAndrews, James; Skeie, David - 2011

The amount of reserves held by the US banking system reached $1.5 trillion in April 2011. Some economists argue that such a large quantity of bank reserves could lead to overly expansive bank lending as the economy recovers, regardless of the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy. In contrast,...

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