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The heterogeneous impact of referrals on labor market outcomes
Lester, Benjamin; Rivers, David A.; Topa, Giorgio - 2021
We document a new set of facts regarding the impact of referrals on labor market outcomes. Our results highlight the … importance of distinguishing between different types of referrals-those from family and friends and those from business contacts …-and different occupations. Then we develop an on-the-job search model that incorporates referrals and calibrate the model to key …
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A model of the federal funds market : yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Afonso, Gara; Armenter, Roc; Lester, Benjamin - 2018
The landscape of the federal funds market changed drastically in the wake of the Great Recession as large-scale asset purchase programs left depository institutions awash with reserves and new regulations made it more costly for these institutions to lend. As traditional levers for implementing...
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The option value of municipal liquidity: evidence from federal lending cutoffs during COVID-19
Haughwout, Andrew; Hijmans, Benjamin L.; Shachar, Or - 2021
We estimate the option value of municipal liquidity by studying bond market activity and public sector hiring decisions when government budgets are severely distressed. Using a regression discontinuity (RD) design, we exploit lending eligibility population cutoffs introduced by the federal...
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How abundant are reserves? : evidence from the wholesale payment system
Afonso, Gara; Duffie, Darrell; Rigon, Lorenzo; Shin, … - 2022
Before the era of large central bank balance sheets, banks relied on incoming payments to fund outgoing payments in order to conserve scarce liquidity. Even in the era of large central bank balance sheets, rather than funding payments with abundant reserve balances, we show that outgoing...
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Large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve : did they work?
Gagnon, Joseph E.; Raskin, Matthew; Remache, Julie; … - 2010
Since December 2008, the Federal Reserve’s traditional policy instrument, the target federal funds rate, has been effectively at its lower bound of zero. In order to further ease the stance of monetary policy as the economic outlook deteriorated, the Federal Reserve purchased substantial...
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The macroeconomic effects of large-scale asset purchase programs
Chen, Han; Cúrdia, Vasco; Ferrero, Andrea - 2011
The effects of asset purchase programs on macroeconomic variables are likely to be moderate. We reach this conclusion after simulating the impact of the Federal Reserve's second large-scale asset purchase program (LSAP II) in a DSGE model enriched with a preferred habitat framework and estimated...
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Floor systems and the Friedman rule : the fiscal arithmetic of open market operations
Keister, Todd; Martin, Antoine; McAndrews, James Joseph - 2015
In a floor system of monetary policy implementation, the central bank remunerates bank reserves at or near the market rate of interest. Some observers have expressed concern that operating such a system will have adverse fiscal consequences for the public sector and may even require the...
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The optimal supply of central bank reserves under uncertainty
Afonso, Gara; La Spada, Gabriele; Mertens, Thomas; … - 2023 - Revised December 2023
This paper provides an analytically tractable theoretical framework to study the optimal supply of central bank reserves when the demand for reserves is uncertain and nonlinear. We fully characterize the optimal supply of central bank reserves and associated market equilibrium. We find that the...
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Cross-country differences in monetary policy execution and money market rates' volatility
Bartolini, Leonardo (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The volatility patterns of overnight interest rates differ across industrial countries in ways that existing models, designed to replicate the features of the U.S. federal funds market, cannot explain. This paper presents an equilibrium model of the overnight interbank market that matches these...
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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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