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explicitly absorb a larger share of the systemic risk. The options for doing this range from surplus countries rebalancing their … securitization industry while removing the systemic risk from the banks' balance sheets. Such public-private solutions could be …
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There are striking and terrifying similarities between the sudden failure of a heart and that of a financial system. In the medical literature, the former is referred to as a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). By analogy, I refer to its financial counterpart as a sudden financial arrest (SFA). In this...
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Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may …-put framework that reduced the persistence of risk-off shocks. We also show that domestic macroeconomic and financial conditions … play a key role in benefiting from the spillovers of these policies during risk-off episodes. Countries like Japan, which …
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Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilising for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may … central banks were effective in containing asset price declines following risk-off episodes. These policies impacted long … rates and inspired confidence in a policy-put framework that reduced the persistence of risk-off shocks. We also show that …
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Central banks (the Fed) and markets (the market) often disagree about the path of interest rates. We develop a model where these different views stem from disagreements between the Fed and the market about future aggregate demand. We then study the implications of these disagreements for...
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We analyze optimal monetary policy when asset prices influence aggregate demand with a lag (as is well documented). In this context, as long as the central bank's main objective is to minimize the output gap, the central bank optimally induces asset price overshooting in response to the...
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) the Fed's response to aggregate demand shocks increases asset price volatility, but this volatility plays a useful … volatility but heightens asset market volatility; (vii) disagreements between the market and the Fed microfound monetary policy … shocks, and generate a policy risk premium …
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of theory with empirical evidence on gross job flows and on financial and labor market rents, we find that, cumulatively …
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