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, but less than three times that held by the Federal Reserve. The average annual growth of financial asset holdings of … credit unions (12%) has generally exceeded the average annual growth of financial asset holdings of banks (7%) over the last … seventy years.Since the turn of the century, the average annual growth of financial asset holdings of both credit unions (8 …
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Government bailouts undermine the core principles of capitalism. They are also expensive, unjust, unpopular, and usually represent dramatic deviations from the rule of law. However, they are also, in some cases, necessary. The “problem of bailouts,” then, is that they are almost always...
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We isolate a U.S. dollar currency premium by comparing corporate bonds issued in the dollar and the euro by firms o utside t he U .S. a nd e uro a rea. We make s everal empirical observations that dissect the perceived advantage of borrowing in the dollar. First, while the dollar dominates...
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We use a two-country New Keynesian model with balance sheet constraints to investigate the magnitude of international spillovers of U.S. monetary policy. Home borrowers obtain funds from domestic households in domestic currency, as well as from residents of the foreign economy (the United...
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I show that dealer behavior in the US corporate bond market is consistent with dealers bearing a time-varying cost of holding inventory. Liquidity is worse when inventory costs increase, especially for bonds with lower credit ratings, customers with lower bargaining power, and larger trades....
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Stock exchange operators compete for order flow by setting "make" fees for limit orders and "take" fees for market orders. When traders quote continuous prices, they can choose prices that perfectly neutralize any fee division, and traders stream to the exchange with the lowest total fee. The...
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sector in the mid-1990s and peaking just before the crisis. Overall, the results show that both the pre-crisis growth and the …
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This paper looks at differences in the stability the Canadian and U.S. financial systems and provides an options framework for studying areas where financial regulations could enhance global market stability
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