We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data atthe individual bank level. Unique to this paper, we also have data on individualbanks’ reserve requirements and actual reserve holdings, thus allowing us to gaugethe extent to which a bank is short or long...

Interest rate derivatives are among the most actively traded financial instruments in the main currency areas. With values of positions reacting immediately to the underlying index of daily interbank rates, manipulation has become an increasing challenge for the operational implementation of...

[...]We address several questions in this paper. First,how could macro markets be useful to the average person?Second, how large are the potential benefits from diversificationif these markets were to be introduced andused optimally? Third, can existing financial marketsachieve a similar degree...

The aim of this note is to provide an overview of various measures of “excess liquidity”,which can be defined as the deviation of the actual stock of money from an estimated equilibriumlevel. Given their dynamic nature, the excess liquidity measures under review are - in thelight of long and...

This paper investigates the transmission of monetary policy in the euro area based onthe factor augmented vector autoregressive approach of Bernanke, Boivin and Eliasz(2005) as well as on a standard VAR model. We focus on the reaction of monetaryaggregates to a one-off monetary policy shock. We...

Die Globalisierung zeigt sowohl positive als auch negative Ausiwirkungen auf die Steuersysteme. Positive Effekte ergeben sich aus dem Wirtschaftswachstum und manifestieren sich in der erweiterten Fiskalbasis...

This paper contributes to the micro-foundation of money in centralizedmarkets with idiosyncratic uncertainty. It shows existence of stationarymonetary equilibria and ensures that there is an optimum quantity ofmoney. The rational solution of our model is compared with actual be-havior in a...

This paper provides empirical evidence in favor of the hypothesis thatthe secular price increase in the 16th century is mainly caused by money supplydevelopments as the discovery of new mines in Latin America. First we reviewprice developments for several European countries over the 16th century...

Monetary policy has traditionally been viewed as theprocess by which a central bank uses its influence overthe supply of money to promote its economic objectives. Forexample, Milton Friedman (1959, p. 24) defined the tools ofmonetary policy to be those “powers that enable the [FederalReserve]...

Financial constraints affecting new firms are some of the factors most cited for impeding entrepreneurial dynamics from flourishing. This article introduces the problem of regional patterns of financial constraints. The research is conducted with regard to the French regions and the new French...