Territorial appointees to an independent central bank (e.g. District Federal Reserve Banks' presidents members of FOMC, Governors of national central banks members of the ECB's Governing Council) are liable to confront a "role conflict" stemming from a duality of loyalties and allegiances - to...

The paper investigates the impact of US quantitative easing (QE) on global non-financial corporate bond issuance. It distinguishes between two QE instruments, MBS/GSE debt and Treasury bonds, and disentangles between two channels of transmission of QE to global bond markets, namely flow effects...

The paper investigates the impact of US quantitative easing (QE) on global non-financial corporate bond issuance. It distinguishes between two QE instruments, MBS/GSE debt and Treasury bonds, and disentangles between two channels of transmission of QE to global bond markets, namely flow effects...

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