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We evaluate the desirability of having an elastic currency generated by a lender of last resort that prints money and lends it to banks in distress. When banks cannot borrow, the economy has a unique equilibrium that is not Pareto optimal. The introduction of unlimited borrowing at a zero...
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This monograph challenges the myth that the recent banking crisis was caused by insufficient statutory regulation of financial markets. Though it finds that statutory regulation failed, and that market participants took more risks than they should have done, it appears that statutory regulation...
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Liquidity Facility, Commercial Paper Funding Facility, Money Market Investor Funding Facility, Primary Dealer Credit Facility …
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during the 19th century to facilitate interregional payments and flows of liquidity and credit. Vast sums moved through the … the system's resilience to solvency and liquidity shocks and whether these shocks might have been contagious. We find that … the interbank system became more resilient to solvency shocks, but less resilient to liquidity shocks, as banks sharply …
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provided liquidity against a range of assets during 2008-09. Dealers with lower equity returns and greater leverage prior to … liquidity in explaining dealer behavior. The results suggest that both financial performance and balance sheet liquidity play a …
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Is the supply of public liquidity important for alleviating financial crises? I quantify a general equilibrium model … featuring the liquidity insurance channel: Banks demand public liquidity as insurance against liquidation losses during banking … crises. Cheaper liquidity insurance increases banks' liquidity buffer, which increases bank lending and thus output …
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empirically test the predictions of a new signalling model that offers a rationale for offering two different liquidity facilities … risky than banks that accessed the DW. Our results can contribute to a better design of liquidity facilities during a …
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of a freeze, inducing firms to hoard even more liquid assets. Liquidity panics provide a new rationale for stricter … liquidity requirements, as this policy alleviates the informational frictions in the banking sector and paradoxically can end up … increasing aggregate investment. On the contrary, policies encouraging bank lending can have the opposite effect …
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In this paper we introduce two measures, the Systemic Liquidity Buffer (SLB) and the Systemic Liquidity Shortfall (SLS …) to assess liquidity in the banking system. The SLB takes an aggregated perspective on liquidity risks in the banking … system. In contrast, the SLS focusses on the problematic banks which suffer a liquidity shortfall. These measures provide an …
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of a freeze, inducing firms to hoard even more liquid assets. Liquidity panics provide a new rationale for stricter … liquidity requirements, as this policy alleviates the informational frictions in the banking sector and paradoxically can end up … increasing aggregate investment. On the contrary, policies encouraging bank lending can have the opposite effect. …
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