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This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...
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crisis, recent advances in global liquidity regulation try to curb the excessive reliance on short-term wholesale funding … regulation may interfere with the central bank's influence on short-term money market rates. This paper tries to fill the gap in … asymmetric information. Regulation can be welfare-improving in the presence of an externality and also in case of collateral …
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We examine the hold-up problem of price regulation and compare it with the monetary policy credibility problem. For …-up problem in regulation turns out to be more serious than the inflation bias problem in monetary policy. Even with far …
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has partial control over bank regulation it can exercise regulatory lenience. Two, the Fed's stronger output orientation … procyclical capital regulation. - Monetary policy ; capital regulation ; crisis …
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Over the years, there has been a lot to consider in the Federal Reserve's choices of monetary policy and their relationship to bubbles. My conclusion is that mistaken U.S. monetary policy, usually related to the Fed's indifference to the value of the dollar, has repeatedly caused harmful asset...
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Do politics matter for macroprudential policy? I show that changes to macroprudential regulation exhibit a predictable …
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Banks are compensated primarily through the net interest margin (NIM), which is the difference between the interest earned on their investments and the interest paid to their depositors and other creditors. In the low interest rate environment that has persisted since the Great Recession, banks...
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The United States is currently trying to manage a fast-moving public health crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). The economic and financial ramifications of the outbreak are serious. This Working Paper discusses these ramifications and identifies three interrelated but potentially...
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The revolving door between government and the private sector has been criticized throughout history, based on the argument that it may lead to a pro-business bias in government policies. While this phenomenon has been extensively investigated for legislative and executive branch bodies, far less...
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