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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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The Lerner index is widely used to assess firms' market power. However, estimation and interpretation present several challenges, especially for banks, which tend to produce multiple outputs and operate with considerable inefficiency. We estimate Lerner indices for U.S. banks for 2001-18 using...
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the experience of the Colombian Central Bank over the last decade, a period of consolidation and innovation of its IT …
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This working paper offers some considerations on the monetary policy framework of the European Central Bank. The trade …
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This paper asserts that beyond certain scale thresholds several factors contribute to diseconomies of scale for individual production units, particularly with regard to the costs of non-renewable resource consumption. Economic instruments such as environmental taxes may induce a shift towards...
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While there is widespread evidence of increasing markups in the United States and other developed economies in the last several decades, little is known about that evolution in developing economies, particularly Latin American countries. Using a harmonized dataset on listed firms from 70...
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Under the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), introduced in 2014, systemically important euro area banks with combined assets of about 21,000 billion euros are directly supervised by the ECB. We examine from a static and a dynamic perspective how this fundamental shift to unified supervision...
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The design of lender-of-last-resort interventions can exacerbate the bank-sovereign nexus. During sovereign crises …, central bank provision of long-term liquidity incentivizes banks to purchase high yield eligible collateral securities … matching the maturity of the central bank loans. Using unique security level data, we find that the European Central Bank's 3 …
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