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Minimum Price Guarantees In a Consumer Search Model

Janssen, Maarten; Parakhonyak, Alexei - 2009

This paper is the first to examine the effect of minimum price guaranteesin a sequential search model. Minimum price guarantees are notadvertised and only known to consumers when they come to the shop.We show that in such an environment, minimum price guarantees increasethe value of buying the...

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Macroeconomic Evolution after a Production Shock: the Role for Financial Intermediation

Vinogradov, Dmitri V. - 2006

Financial intermediaries may increase economic efficiency through intertemporal risk smoothing. However without an adequate regulation, intermediation may fail to do this. This paper studies the effects of a production shock in a closed economy and compares abilities of market-based and...

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Fiscal Deficits, Financial Fragility, and the Effectiveness of Government Policies

Kirchner, Markus; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2012

Recent macro developments in the euro area have highlighted the interactions between fiscal policy, sovereign debt, and financial fragility. We take a structural macroeconomic model with frictions in the financial intermediation process, in line with recent research, but introduce asset choice...

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Financial Development, Economic Growth and Corporate Governance

Winkler, Adalbert - 1998

development. The second part of the paper seeks to identify the determinants of financial development based on Diamond's theory of …

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The Shadow Banking System - Survey and Typological Framework

Poschmann, Jenny - 2012

Even though the sector of Non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFI) or shadow banks represent a large part of the contemporary financial system, these institutions received almost no attention in macroeconomic studies so far. Their presence has significant influence on the conduct of monetary...

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The Theory of Financial Intermediation: An Essay On What It Does (Not) Explain

Scholtens, Bert; van Wensveen, Dick - 2003

This essay reflects upon the relationship between the current theory of financial intermediation and real …-world practice. Our critical analysis of this theory leads to several building blocks of a new theory of financial intermediation …. Current financial intermediation theory builds on the notion that intermediaries serve to reduce transaction costs and …

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Banking with Contingent Contracts, Macroeconomic Risks, and Banking Crises

Gersbach, Hans - 2008

We examine banking competition when deposit or loan contracts contingent on macroeconomic shocks become feasible. We show that the risk allocation is efficient, provided that banks are not bailed out. In this case, banks may shift part of the risk to depositors. The private sector insures the...

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Deposit Insurance in General Equilibrium

Gersbach, Hans; Britz, Volker; Haller, Hans - 2016

We study the consequences and optimal design of bank deposit insurance in a general equilibrium model. The model involves two production sectors. One sector is financed by issuing bonds to risk-averse households. Firms in the other sector are monitored and financed by banks. Households fund...

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A macroeconomic framework for quantifying systemic risk

He, Zhiguo; Krishnamurthy, Arvind - 2012

Systemic risk arises when shocks lead to states where a disruption in financial intermediation adversely affects the economy and feeds back into further disrupting financial intermediation. We present a macroeconomic model with a financial intermediary sector subject to an equity capital...

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Coordination Frictions and The Financial Crisis

Gautier, Pieter A. - 2009

In this note I argue that the desirability of fiscal policy in response to the current crisis depends on whether one views the current crisis as a temporary deviation from a unique equilibrium or as a bad equilibrium out of multiple equilibria. The paper presents a simple Diamond (1982) type of...

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