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This paper explores the financial stability implications of mark-to-market accounting, in particular its tendency to amplify financial cycles and the "reach for yield". Market prices play a dual role. Not only do they serve as a signal of the underlying fundamentals and the actions taken by...
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discuss their implications for market functioning in both normal times and times of stress. We find that alternative liquidity … providers have stepped in as constraints on dealer liquidity provision have tightened, supporting liquidity during normal times …
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the innovations in the VIX index. Aggregate liquidity can be seen as the rate of change of the aggregate balance sheet of …
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A review of major lines of thinking about developments in the 1980s bearing on the likelihood of a financial crisis in the United States supports four principal conclusions:First, financial crises have historically played a major role in large fluctuations in business activity. A financial...
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Treasury market liquidity is constructed, reflecting the fact that the varying measures capture different aspects of market … liquidity. The liquidity index is then correlated with various metrics of funding liquidity, volatility, and macroeconomic … conditions. The liquidity index points to poor liquidity during the 2007-09 financial crisis and around the near failure of Long …
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A review of major lines of thinking about developments in the 1980s bearing on the likelihood of a financial crisis in the United States supports four principal conclusions:<br>First, financial crises have historically played a major role in large fluctuations in business activity. A financial...
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We present a microfounded New Keynesian model that features financial vulnerabilities. Financial intermediaries' occasionally binding value-at-risk constraints give rise to variation in the pricing of risk that generates time-varying risk in the conditional mean and volatility of the output gap....
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