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How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks' attitude towards risk? The … answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank's risk … confirm that disparities in market power, banks' funding costs, and banks' funding risks are re ected in bank lending rates …
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Standard economic models hold that exchange rates are influenced by fundamental variables such as relative money supplies, outputs, inflation rates and interest rates. Nonetheless, it has been well documented that such variables little help predict changes in floating exchange rates u0097 that...
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model where the central bank follows a strategy directed at maintaining price stability. It is shown that the behaviour of …
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We study how monetary policy affects local market competition in a union of countries experiencing different economic conditions: the euro area. We find that when monetary conditions tighten (loosen), from the point of view of an individual economy, market concentration increases (declines)....
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bias, the central bank should aim to keep the real interest rate systematically below the long-run natural rate, as long as …
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Life insurers sell savings contracts with surrender options, which allow policyholders to prematurely receive guaranteed surrender values. These surrender options move toward the money when interest rates rise. Hence, higher interest rates raise surrender rates, as we document empirically by...
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