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A note concerning government bond yields
Akram, Tanweer - 2020
This paper relates Keynes's discussions of money, the state theory of money, financial markets, investors' expectations, uncertainty, and liquidity preference to the dynamics of government bond yields for countries with monetary sovereignty. Keynes argued that the central bank can influence the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610205
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Contagion effects of the Silicon Valley Bank run
Choi, Dong Beom; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul; Yorulmazer, Tanju - 2023
This paper analyzes the contagion effects associated with the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and identifies bank-specific vulnerabilities contributing to the subsequent declines in banks' stock returns. We find that uninsured deposits, unrealized losses in held-to-maturity securities, bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540982
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On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms
Diebold, Francis X.; Yılmaz, Kamil - 2011
We propose several connectedness measures built from pieces of variance decompositions, and we argue that they provide natural and insightful measures of connectedness among financial asset returns and volatilities. We also show that variance decompositions define weighted, directed networks, so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500191
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Default-Risky Bond Prices with Jumps, Liquidity Risk and Heterogeneous Investors
Jeanblanc, Monique; Valchev, Stoyan - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2004
This paper develops a default-risky bond pricing model, which assumes that the default intensity is driven by a Markov chain and which accounts for default and liquidity risk. A representation of the bond price dynamics, which separates three different types of risk, was obtained. Introducing...
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Tests of ex ante versus ex post theories of collateral using private and public information
Berger, Allen N.; Frame, W. Scott; Ioannidou, Vasso - 2010
Collateral is a widely used, but not well understood, debt-contracting feature. Two broad strands of theoretical … literature explain collateral as arising from the existence of either ex ante private information or ex post incentive problems … ex post theories of collateral are empirically dominant although the ex ante theories are also valid for customers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292349
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On the negatives of negative interest rates and the positives of exemption thresholds
Berentsen, Aleksander; van Buggenum, Hugo; Ruprecht, Romina - 2020
Major central banks remunerate reserves at negative interest rates and it is increasingly likely that they will keep rates negative for many more years. To study the long run implications of negative rates, we construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with commercial banks funding investment...
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The Tyranny of the Tenths. The Rise and Gradual Fall of Forward Guidance in Sweden 2007-2018
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jonung, Lars - 2019
This paper examines the Swedish experience of forward guidance 2007-2018. We focus on three interrelated issues: first, the effects of forward guidance on the discussion within the Board of Directors of the Riksbank, second, on the communication between the Riksbank and the public, and third, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208855
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Lessons from the Swedish Experience with Negative Central Bank Rates
Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jonung, Lars - 2020
Negative interest rates were once seen as impossible outside the realm of economic theory. However, several central banks have recently adopted negative policy rates. The Federal Reserve is coming under increasing pressure to follow suit in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208878
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Endogenous money and the natural rate of interest: The reemergence of liquidity preference and animal spirits in the post-Keynesian theory of capital markets
Pilkington, Philip - 2014
Since the beginning of the fall of monetarism in the mid-1980s, mainstream macroeconomics has incorporated many of the principles of post-Keynesian endogenous money theory. This paper argues that the most important critical component of post-Keynesian monetary theory today is its rejection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513071
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Japan's liquidity trap
Akram, Tanweer - 2016
Japan has experienced stagnation, deflation, and low interest rates for decades. It is caught in a liquidity trap. This paper examines Japan's liquidity trap in light of the structure and performance of the country's economy since the onset of stagnation. It also analyzes the country's liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784652