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banks to have private information about the risk of their assets. We show how banks’ asset risk affects funding liquidity in … state with adverse selection and elevated rates; and iii) market breakdown with liquidity hoarding. We provide an … of unsecured rates and excess reserves banks hold, as well as the inability of massive liquidity injections by central …
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We study the functioning of secured and unsecured interbank markets in the presence of credit risk. The model generates empirical predictions that are in line with developments during the 2007-2009 financial crises. Interest rates decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an...
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This paper studies the relationship between the size of the banking sector’s refinancing needs vis-à-vis the central … the total size of the banking sector’s refinancing needs. An empirical analysis then aims at determining the size of open …. Therefore, the analysis suggests that there is a lower bound for the amount of liquidity provided through short-term operations …
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deleveraging, a market run, and a liquidity trap. Crises occur when there is too much liquidity (savings) in the economy with … respect to the number of (safe) investment opportunities. In effect, the economy is shown to have a limited liquidity … makes financial crises more likely when it exceeds the liquidity absorption capacity of the developed country. Thus, under …
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This paper provides a simple weekly model of the regular supply of liquidity in the euro area, with a view to … understanding the functioning of the euro area money market. The main result of the analysis is that liquidity has normally been … deviations of the overnight rate from the main refinancing rate. Moreover the paper finds that liquidity has affected the …
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We study sovereign yield dynamics and order flow in the largest euro-area treasury markets. We exploit unique transaction data to explain daily yield changes in the ten-year government bonds of Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany. We use a state space model to decompose these changes into (i) a...
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We assess monetary convergence preceding the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) through Kalman filtering estimates of the risk premium of eleven forward exchange rates of European and non-European currencies. Since all participating currencies are in effect identical from...
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From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered interest rates. Both sets of changes are at odds with an anti-inflationary stance of monetary policy; indeed, as the crisis began in August 2007 inflation expectations were high...
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busts, and analyses equity market reforms and excess liquidity as potential drivers of these stock price misalignments. Our … liquidity, seem to have significantly contributed to these misalignments. …
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