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sense that repo lending increases with risk, while spreads, maturities, and haircuts remain stable. Our comparison across …
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This paper uses new data to provide a comprehensive view of repo activity during the 2007-09 financial crisis for the first time. We show that activity declined much more in the bilateral segment of the market than in the tri-party segment. Surprisingly, we find that a large share of the decline...
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This paper examines the role of collateral in the financial system, with special emphasis on the implications for financial stability and the conduct of monetary policy. First, we review what drives the demand and supply for both real and financial collateral assets. Then we examine financial...
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In summer 2011, elevated sovereign risk in Eurozone peripheral countries increased the solvency risk of Eurozone banks … funding pressure for banks, but did not help to contain sovereign risk. In fact, banks of the peripheral countries used the … public funds to increase their exposure to risky domestic debt, so that when solvency risk in the Eurozone worsened the run …
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The Financial Crisis began and accelerated in short-term money markets. One such market is the multi-trillion dollar sale-and-repurchase (repo) market, where prices show strong reactions during the crisis. The academic literature and policy community remain unsettled about the role of repo runs,...
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This project considers repo market stress in September 2019. First, I find that the multiple causes of that market disruption suggest the need for more comprehensive review of liquidity policy frameworks. I then review recent proposals to prevent future repo funding disruptions, evaluating them...
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Specialness - the premium of procuring a specific security in the repo market - increased in the second half of 2011 for Italian government bonds. We assess the impact on specialness of the outright purchase program of the Eurosystem during the same period. Bonds bought by the Eurosystem had...
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between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler (1989) maxmin with multiple priors framework to …
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Has economic research been helpful in dealing with the financial crises of the early 2000s? On the whole, the answer is negative, although there are bright spots. Economists have largely failed to predict both crises, largely because most of them were not analytically equipped to understand...
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