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LIBOR: Origins, economics, crisis, scandal, and reform

Hou, David; Skeie, David - 2014

The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a widely used indicator of funding conditions in the interbank market. As … of 2013, LIBOR underpins more than $300 trillion of financial contracts, including swaps and futures, in addition to … trillions more in variable-rate mortgage and student loans. LIBOR's volatile behavior during the financial crisis provoked …

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The role of technology in mortgage lending

Fuster, Andreas; Plosser, Matthew; Schnabl, Philipp; … - 2018

Technology-based ("FinTech") lenders increased their market share of U.S. mortgage lending from 2 percent to 8 percent from 2010 to 2016. Using market-wide, loan-level data on U.S. mortgage applications and originations, we show that FinTech lenders process mortgage applications about 20 percent...

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Inventory dynamics and business cycles: What has changed?

McCarthy, Jonathan; Zakrajések, Egon - 2002

By historical standards, the U.S. economy has experienced a period of remarkable stability since the mid-1980s. One explanation attributes the diminished variability of economic activity to information-technology-led improvements in inventory management. Our results, however, indicate that the...

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What's driving the new economy: The benefits of workplace innovation

Black, Sandra E.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2001

Using a unique nationally representative sample of U.S. establishments surveyed in both 1993 and 1996, we examine the relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, we find evidence that high-performance...

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Payment size, negative equity, and mortgage default

Fuster, Andreas; Willen, Paul S. - 2012

Surprisingly little is known about the importance of mortgage payment size for default, as efforts to measure the treatment effect of rate increases or loan modifi cations are confounded by borrower selection. We study a sample of hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages that have experienced large rate...

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ECB monetary operations and the interbank repo market

Dunne, Peter G.; Fleming, Michael J.; Zholos, Andrey - 2013

We examine the relationship between monetary policy operations and interbank borrowing and lending of funds using sovereign bonds as collateral. We first establish that, in the precrisis period, there are important but rather weak relations between these funding sources and that this...

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The microstructure of China's government bond market

Bai, Jennie; Fleming, Michael; Horan, Casidhe - 2013

Although China now has one of the largest government bond markets in the world, the market has received relatively little attention and analysis. We describe the history and structure of the market and assess its functioning. We find that trading in individual bonds was historically sparse but...

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Time variation in asset price response to macro announcements

Goldberg, Linda S.; Grisse, Christian - 2013

Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, theserelationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high-frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....

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Federal reserve tools for managing rates and reserves

Martin, Antoine; McAndrews, James; Palida, Ali; Skeie, David - 2013

Monetary policy measures taken by the Federal Reserve as a response to the 2007-09 financial crisis and subsequent economic conditions led to a large increase in the level of outstanding reserves. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has a range of tools to control short-term market rates in...

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Interest rate conundrums in the twenty-first century

Hanson, Samuel G.; Lucca, David O.; Wright, Jonathan H. - 2017

A large literature argues that long-term interest rates appear to react far more to high-frequency (for example, daily or monthly) movements in short-term interest rates than is predicted by the standard expectations hypothesis. We find that, since 2000, such high-frequency "excess sensitivity"...

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