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' unease when disseminating news to the markets and argues against the recent trend of demanding full transparency both for …
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We develop a comprehensive index of the transparency of central banks regarding their policy framework to promote … financial stability for 110 countries from 2000 to 2011 and examine the determinants and effects of this transparency. We find … that the degree of transparency increased in the 2000s, though it still varied greatly across the countries in our study …
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This paper aims to shed light on some of the major allocative consequences of financial market bubbles. In March 1997, the Neuer Markt in Germany opened. Six years later, in June 2003, it closed forever. In the interim period lay the spectacular rise and fall of the first and most important...
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Market distress can be the catalyst of a deleveraging wave, as in the 2007/08 financial crisis. This paper demonstrates how market distress and deleveraging can fuel each other in the presence of adverse selection problems in asset markets. At the core of the detrimental feedback loop is agents'...
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This note discusses key issues regarding communication of macroprudential frameworks and draws on a recent survey of emerging market economy central banks to highlight factors that are of particular relevance to emerging market economies.Full Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=3101163'...
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It is well known that movements in lending rates are asymmetric; they rise quickly and sharply, but fall slowly and gradually. Not known is the fact that the asymmetry is stronger the less developed a country's financial system is. This new fact is here documented and explained in a model with an...
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How can fire sales for financial assets happen when the economy contains well capitalized, but non-specialist investors? Our explanation combines rational expectations equilibrium and "lemons" models. When specialist (informed) market participants are liquidity-constrained, prices become less...
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This paper aims to shed light on some of the major allocative consequences of financial market bubbles. In March 1997, the Neuer Markt in Germany opened. Six years later, in June 2003, it closed forever. In the interim period lay the spectacular rise and fall of the first and most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991085
I study how banks and other financial intermediaries can use information disclosure to prevent self-fulfilling bank runs. I begin with a finite-agent version of Diamond and Dybvig (1983) with correlated liquidity shocks and sequential service. I allow the intermediary to inform each investor...
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Can central counterparty (CCP) clearing control counterparty risk in the presence of risk taking that can aggravate such risk? When counterparty risk is not observable, I show that central clearing leads to higher collateral requirements for two different reasons. Without collusion about risk...
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