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The Federal Reserve responded to the global financial crisis by initiating an unprecedented expansion of central bank money (bank reserves) once the policy rate had reached the lower bound. To capture the salient features of the crisis, we develop a model where the central bank can provide...
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inappropriate characterizations of monetary policy, as well as to ill-defined discussions of liquidity effects, the bank lending …
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Central banks repo market operations and liquidity infusions occasion a structural liquidity mismatch in bank balance … sheets and increase the dependence on central bank liquidity. This paper argues for what I term “Circular Monetary Economics …”, an approach to monetary policy that seeks to green and prudentially insulate the design and implementation of liquidity …
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This study constructs and examines the dynamics of theoretical and atheoretical measures of global liquidity, using … economic activity and the lag of cyclical components of the measures of global liquidity to gauge the strength of their … financial and liquidity conditions, and policy stance. Their cyclical components are also strongly associated with those of …
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led to the creation of excessive global liquidity, which has contributed to asset price bubbles. Although the exchange …
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Global real interest rates were driven up in the 1980s, partly to encourage disinflation, while subsequently structural and conjunctural factors have driven rates to lower levels. The increase in the global pool of savings and the fiscal correction associated with the long economic expansion...
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of non-conventional monetary policies has provided some evidence on the efficacy of liquidity and asset purchases for … balance sheet operations supply (remove) liquidity to a financial market that is otherwise short (long) of liquidity and hence … reserves ; monetar & fiscal policy instruments ; Basel III. …
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Using the business cycle accounting (BCA) framework pioneered by Chari, Kehoe and McGratten (2006) we examine the 2008-09 recession in the UK. There has been much commentary on the financial causes of this recession, which we might have expected to shock the equation governing the intertemporal...
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We decompose aggregate consumption by modelling both savers and their links to collateral constrained borrowers through a bank which prices credit risk. Savers own both firms and the commercial bank while borrowers require loans from the commercial bank to effect their consumption plans. The...
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Prior to the financial crisis mainstream monetary policy practice had become disconnected from money. We outline the basic rationale for this development using a simple model of money and credit in which we explore the conditions under which money matters directly for the conduct of policy....
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