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Uniform-price auctions of a divisible good in fixed supply admit underpricing equilibria, where bidders submit high inframarginal bids to prevent competition on prices. The seller can obstruct this behavior by tilting her supply schedule and making the amount of divisible good on offer change...
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After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the...
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Inflation targeting has been adopted in a set of emerging economies, including eight countries in Latin America. The success of this regime may depend critically on the credibility of the target and the expectation that the authorities will take appropriate actions if the target is breached....
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This working paper offers some considerations on the monetary policy framework of the European Central Bank. The trade-offs arising from adopting a point target configuration over a range target one are assessed in terms of their flexibility vs. inflation anchoring properties. This layout is...
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This paper explores the level of independence of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia by primarily focusing on the legal provisions that pertain to the key aspects for achieving and maintaining price stability. It provides a historical perspective of the evolution of the independence...
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results show that tightening reserve requirements has the desired effects on interest rates and credit levels at both banks …
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characterizes banks responses to the RR carried out by the Peruvian Central Bank since 2008 with the objective of stabilizing the … credit in the economy and that banks response in terms of credit and deposits is very heterogeneous depending on their ex … empirical insights, the paper builds a DSGE small-open-economy model with financial frictions à la Gertler …
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paper investigates the effects of the monetary signals by the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia on banks' lending … that the Stiglitz and Weiss model better explains the banks' behavior in the Republic of Macedonia, that is the banking … signals clearly affect the banks to restrict lending. On the other hand, the monetary expansionary signals have to be …
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framework in which fractional reserve banks emerge in equilibrium, where bank assets are funded with liabilities made demandable … in government money, where the terms of bank deposit contracts are affected by the liquidity insurance available in … financial markets, where banks are subject to runs, and where a central bank has a meaningful role to play, both in terms of …
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, central bank provision of long-term liquidity incentivizes banks to purchase high yield eligible collateral securities …-year Long-Term Refinancing Operation caused Portuguese banks to purchase short-term domestic government bonds, equivalent … to 10.6% of amounts outstanding, and pledge them to obtain central bank liquidity. The steepening of Eurozone peripheral …
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