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rule cannot be implemented when the central bank uses standing facilities, while it can be implemented with open market …
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Over the last decade, the legal and institutional frameworks governing central banks and financial market regulatory … of central banks in achieving their objectives and ultimately yielding better economic outcomes. Although much has been … written pointing out the potential role institutional form can play in central bank performance, little empirical work has …
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applying these standard techniques to central banks, and reviews some of the literature that has attempted to apply these … techniques to central banking. The uniqueness of some of the activities of central banking, the difficulty in measuring some of … the central banking outputs, and the complicated and multiple objectives pursued by central banks makes application of the …
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particular, we define an operational procedure for a central bank capable of ensuring the stability of the monetary system. …
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The authors study credible information transmission by a benevolent central bank. They consider two possibilities … of transmitting information have very different consequences. Since the objectives of the central bank and those of … individual investors are not always aligned, private investors might rationally ignore announcements by the central bank. In …
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Superseded by Working Paper 15-20. Monetary economists have long recognized a tension between the benefits of fractional reserve banking, such as the ability to undertake more profitable (long-term) investment opportunities, and the difficulties associated with fractional reserve banking, such...
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This paper conducts an in-depth analysis of structured finance asset-backed securities collateralized debt obligations (SF ABS CDOs), the subset of CDOs that traded on the ABS CDO desks at the major investment banks and were a major contributor to the global financial panic of August 2007....
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Earlier studies found little evidence of scale economies at large banks; later studies using data from the 1990s uncovered such evidence, providing a rationale for very large banks seen worldwide. Using more recent data, the authors estimate scale economies using two production models. The...
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The authors examine investors' reactions to announcements of large seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) by U.S. financial institutions (FIs) from 2000 to 2009. These offerings include market infusions as well as injections of government capital under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The...
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