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liquidity over incentives. Optimal interventions with commitment call for large, long-term subsidies in excess of what is … required to restore liquidity. …
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Agency mortgage backed securities (MBS) with diverse characteristics are traded in parallel with individualized contracts in the specified pool (SP) market and with standardized contracts in the to-be-announced (TBA) market. We find that this unique parallel trading environment significantly...
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forward markets. We study the consequences of this fragmentation, showing that market liquidity endogenously concentrated in … increased the liquidity and prices of Freddie Mac MBS without measurably reducing liquidity for Fannie Mae; this was in part … to the consolidation event, in anticipation of future liquidity. Consolidation increased Freddie Mac's fee income by …
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market liquidity over time, when dealer balance sheet utilization reaches sufficiently high levels, liquidity is much worse …
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One of the most robust stylized facts in macroeconomics is the forecasting power of the term spread for future real activity. The economic rationale for this forecasting power usually appeals to expectations of future interest rates, which affect the slope of the term structure. In this paper,...
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This paper describes segregated balance accounts (SBAs), a concept for a new type of account that could provide increased competition for deposits, reduce system-wide balance sheet costs, and improve the transmission of monetary policy by facilitating greater pass-through of interest on excess...
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While many analyses of monetary policy consider only a target for a short-term nominal interest rate, other dimensions of policy have recently been of greater importance: changes in the supply of bank reserves, changes in the assets acquired by central banks, and changes in the interest rate...
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What role does stock investment play in the transmission of monetary policy to the real economy? We study this question using a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous households. Following a monetary tightening, stock market participants rebalance their investments away from stocks, in line with...
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capital requirements; liquidity-based tools such as the liquidity coverage and net stable funding ratios; credit-based tools … such as caps on loan-to-value ratios and margins; capital and liquidity stress testing; and supervisory guidance and moral …
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unsecured and asset-backed commercial paper from eligible issuers via primary dealers. The CPFF was a liquidity backstop to U … provide liquidity to the financial system. This paper documents aspects of the financial crisis relevant to the creation of …
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