Showing 1 - 10 of 140
, allowing for the auctioning of Treasury bills to create the liquidity reflux necessary to refill the account. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014531238
This paper reviews the theoretical literature at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance to draw lessons on the connection between vulnerabilities in the financial system and the macroeconomy, and on how monetary policy affects that connection. This literature finds that financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013161877
This paper has two main objectives. The first is to propose a policy architecture that can prevent a very high public debt from resulting in a high tax burden, a government default, or inflation. The second objective is to show that government deficits do not face a financing problem. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309513
The debate about the use of fiscal instruments for macroeconomic stabilization has regained prominence in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and the experience of a monetary union equipped with fiscal shock absorbers, such as the United States, has often been a reference. This paper enhances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999069
provided liquidity against a range of assets during 2008-09. Dealers with lower equity returns and greater leverage prior to … liquidity in explaining dealer behavior. The results suggest that both financial performance and balance sheet liquidity play a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404154
and liquidity has increased since the late 1990s, and to a lesser extent because economic growth has slowed. We reach this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647660
This paper proposes a theory of the fiscal foundations of inflation based on imperfect knowledge and learning. The theory is similar in spirit to, but distinct from, unpleasant monetarist arithmetic and the fiscal theory of the price level. Because the assumption of imperfect knowledge breaks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202656
We develop a model in which financial intermediaries hold liquidity to protect themselves from shocks. Depending on … parameter values, banks may choose to hold too much or too little liquidity on aggregate compared with the socially optimal … underinsurance against liquidity choice. The model therefore provides a unified framework for thinking, on the one hand, about policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419845
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001398156
We present strong empirical evidence favoring the role of effective demand in the US economy, in the spirit of Keynes and Kalecki. Our inference comes from a statistically well-specified VAR model constructed on a quarterly basis from 1980 to 2008. US output is our variable of interest, and it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153006