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correlate with household net wealth (or income). Bond price increases thus leave net wealth inequality largely unchanged. In … from housing price increases. The capital gains from bond price increases (relative to household net wealth) do not … contrast, equity price increases largely benefit the top end of the net wealth (and income) distribution, thus amplify net …
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Collateral plays a very important role in financial markets. Without easy access to high-quality collateral, dealers and market participants would find it more costly to trade, with a negative impact on market liquidity and the real economy through increased financing costs. The role of...
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I estimate the comparative causal effects of monetary policy "leaning against the wind" (LAW) and macroprudential policy on bank-level lending and leverage by drawing on a single natural experiment. In 1920, when U.S. monetary policy was still decentralized, four Federal Reserve Banks...
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, wealth inequality in the EA decreases with unexpected inflation, although in some countries (Austria, Germany and Malta …) using sectoral accounts and newly available data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. The EA as a whole is a …, and Belgium and Malta being the largest losers. Governments are net winners of inflation, while the household (HH) sector …
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We study the effects of the US Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase programs during 2008-2014 on bank liquidity creation. Banks create liquidity when they transform the liquid reserves resulted from quantitative easing into illiquid assets. As the composition of banks' loan portfolio...
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We study whether regulation that relies on historical cost accounting (HCA) rather than mark-to-market accounting (MMA) to insulate banks' net worth from financial market volatility affects the transmission of quantitative easing (QE) through the bank lending channel. Using detailed supervisory...
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We assess the effectiveness of the forward guidance undertaken by European Central Bank using a standard medium-scale DSGE model à la Smets and Wouters (2007). Exploiting data on expectations from surveys, we show that incorporating expectations should be crucial in performance evaluation of...
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model. We find that a union aggregate systemic risk shock results in a sharp decline in output, with two thirds of the …
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This paper develops a theory of the secondary market trading of financial securitities in which endogenous asset market dynamics generate periods of growing aggregate credit volumes and falling credit standards even in the absence of "financial shocks." Falling credit standards in turn lead to...
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