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government to temporarily reduce debt. This decline stimulates output, which is inefficiently low during liquidity traps, by …
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empirically test the predictions of a new signalling model that offers a rationale for offering two different liquidity facilities … risky than banks that accessed the DW. Our results can contribute to a better design of liquidity facilities during a …
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liquidity frictions. We distinguish between full and partial sales (one firm gets all or some of the other's capital). Both …, more partial sales occur when liquidity is tight. Quantitatively, we find significant steady-state and business …
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that a lending facility provides a bundle of two types of insurance: insurance against liquidity risk as well as insurance … liquidity constraints of agents on one hand, and increasing potential inflation risk and distorting the portfolio choices of … agents who actually need liquidity. Finally, for an unexpected drop in the haircut, the central bank can be more aggressive …
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We analyze the interaction between committed monetary policy and discretionary fiscal policy in a model with public debt, endogenous government expenditures, distortive taxation and nominal rigidities. Fiscal decisions lack commitment but are Markovperfect. Monetary commitment to an interest...
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Over the last few decades, real interest rates have trended downward in many countries. The most common explanation is that this reflects depressed demand due to demographic, technological and other real factors such as income inequality. In this paper we explore the claim that these trends may...
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This paper examines how the transmission of government portfolio risk arising from maturity operations depends on the stance of monetary/fiscal policy. Accounting for risk premia in the fiscal theory allows the government portfolio to affect the expected inflation, even in a frictionless...
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This paper reconsiders the degree to which macroeconomic stabilization is possible when the zero lower bound is a relevant constraint on the effectiveness of conventional monetary policy, under an assumption of bounded rationality. In particular, we reconsider the potential role of...
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We present an incomplete markets model to understand the costs and benefits of increasing government debt when an increased demand for safety pushes the natural rate of interest below zero. A higher demand for safe assets causes the ZLB to bind, increasing unemployment. Higher government debt...
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the liquidity trap. The optimal policy is isomorphic to Leeper's (1991) "passive monetary/active fiscal policy" regime in …
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