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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...
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This paper reviews literature on the empirical relationship between vulnerabilities in the financial system and the macroeconomy, and how monetary policy affects that connection. Financial vulnerabilities build up over time, with both risk appetite and risk taking rising during economic...
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We estimate a highly significant price of risk that forecasts global stock and bond returns as a nonlinear function of the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). We show that countries' exposure to the global price of risk is related to macroeconomic risks as measured by output, credit, and inflation...
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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 …
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sensitivity of these strains to risk sentiment deterioration. Cross-border flows through banks for excess liquidity support … facilities leaves longer-term patterns of cross-border liquidity and capital flows broadly unchanged. While official sector … liquidity hoarding and “dash for cash” activity are expected to be lower with access to these facilities, initial evidence does …
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Building on the facility design and application experience from the period of the global financial crisis, in March 2020 the Federal Reserve eased the terms on its standing swap lines in collaboration with other central banks, reactivated temporary swap agreements, and then introduced the new...
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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 …
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closely tied to fluctuations in the leverage of market-based financial intermediaries. Offering a window on liquidity, the …
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aggressive use of both traditional monetary policy instruments and innovative tools in an effort to provide liquidity. In this … to be necessary. -- Crisis response ; Federal Reserve ; counterparty credit risk ; liquidity risk ; limits to arbitrage …
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This paper examines the Federal Reserve's unprecedented liquidity provision during the financial crisis of 2007 …-2009. It first reviews how the Fed provides liquidity in normal times. It then explains how the Fed's new and expanded … liquidity facilities were intended to enable the central bank to fulfill its traditional lender-of-last-resort role during the …
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