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We use quasi-random access to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) to identify the causal effect of refinancing … a mortgage on borrower balance sheet outcomes. We find that on average, refinancing into a lower-rate mortgage reduced … borrowers' default rates on mortgages and nonmortgage debts by about 40 percent and 25 percent, respectively. Refinancing also …
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The relation between the ECB’s main refinancing (MRO) rates and the money market is key for the monetary transmission … allotment policy introduced by the ECB as an unconventionalmeasure to re-stabilize banks’ refinancing conditions. -- Financial …
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This paper empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Bank of Canada's term Purchase and Resale Agreement (PRA) facility in reducing short-term bank funding pressures, as measured by the CDOR-OIS spread. It examines the behaviour of this spread around both term PRA announcement dates and term...
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This paper contributes to the existing literature on central bank repo auctions. It is based on a structural econometric approach, whereby the primitives of bidding behavior (individual bid schedules and bid-shading components) are directly estimated. With the estimated parameters we calibrate a...
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