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struggling to escape liquidity quicksands and stubbornly low or negative growth and employment trends. At the center of the … monetary policy pivot point. Since November 2011, the ECB has taken on an arguably activist liquidity-provider role relative to … integration. In December 2011, the ECB made clear its intention to inject massive liquidity when faced with crises of scale in …
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such as liquidity and saving are explored. We conclude with a look at some of the new innovations in finance, and at the …
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We evaluate the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis that a more accommodative monetary policy could have greatly reduced the severity of the Great Depression. To do this, we first estimate a dynamic, general equilibrium model using data from the 1920s and 1930s. Although the model includes eight...
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intensively, with the main objective of providing liquidity to the banking system, but also as a tool for aggregate demand …
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substantial quantities of liquidity into the financial system and seen their balance sheets expand to multiples of GDP. We outline …'s budget constraint. We briefly outline the recent experience with QE and draw a distinction between liquidity and …
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dated government bonds with borrowed central bank reserves and so has increased the liquidity of the non-bank financial … liquidity premium embedded in long term bonds and/or (ii) adopting countercyclical subsidies to bank capital able and/or (iii …
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We re-connect money to in.ation using Goodfriend and McCallum's (2007) model where banks supply loans to cash-in-advance constrained consumers on the basis of the value of collateral provided and the monitoring skills of banks. We show that when shocks to monitoring and collateral dominate those...
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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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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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