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The heterogeneous impact of referrals on labor market outcomes
Lester, Benjamin; Rivers, David A.; Topa, Giorgio - 2021
We document a new set of facts regarding the impact of referrals on labor market outcomes. Our results highlight the … importance of distinguishing between different types of referrals-those from family and friends and those from business contacts …-and different occupations. Then we develop an on-the-job search model that incorporates referrals and calibrate the model to key …
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Unsecured and secured funding
Di Filippo, Mario; Ranaldo, Angelo; Wrampelmeyer, Jan - 2018
We empirically investigate why wholesale funding is fragile by providing the first study of how individual banks borrow and lend in the euro unsecured and secured interbank market. Consistent with theories in which lenders enforce market discipline by monitoring counterparty credit risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818292
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Unsecured and Secured Funding
Di Filippo, Mario; Ranaldo, Angelo; Wrampelmeyer, Jan - 2018
We empirically investigate why wholesale funding is fragile by providing the first study of how individual banks borrow and lend in the euro unsecured and secured interbank market. Consistent with theories in which lenders enforce market discipline by monitoring counterparty credit risk and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819553
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Frictional asset reallocation under adverse selection
Madison, Florian - 2018 - Revised version
The aim of this paper is to study asset reallocation in financial markets subject to search, bargaining, and information frictions, and to analyze the impact of monetary policy on equilibrium outcomes. The main results show that private information regarding the quality of an asset impairs its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790391
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Price customization and targeting in many-to-many matching markets
Gomes, Renato; Pavan, Alessandro - 2018
Recent technologies permit matching intermediaries to engage in unprecedented levels of targeting. Yet, regulators fear that the welfare gains of such targeting be hindered by the high degree of price customization practiced by matching intermediaries, whereby prices finely depend on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796901
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Why bank money creation?
Gersbach, Hans; Zelzner, Sebastian - 2022 - This version: April 20, 2022
We provide a rationale for bank money creation in our current monetary system by investigating its merits over a system with banks as intermediaries of loanable funds. The latter system could result when CBDCs are introduced. In the loanable funds system, households limit banks' leverage ratios...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187924
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Why bank money creation?
Gersbach, Hans; Zelzner, Sebastian - 2022
We provide a rationale for bank money creation in our current monetary system by investigating its merits over a system with banks as intermediaries of loanable funds. The latter system could result when CBDCs are introduced. In the loanable funds system, households limit banks' leverage ratios...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191634
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In noise we trust? Optimal monetary policy with random targets
Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Cosmaciuc, Bogdan - 2006
We show that a monetary policy in which the central bank commits to a randomized inflation target allows for potentially faster-expectations convergence than with a fixed target. The randomized target achieves faster convergence in particular in transition environments: those demonstrating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280889
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(Un)conventional policy and the effective lower bound
De Fiore, Fiorella; Tristani, Oreste - 2018
We study the optimal combination of conventional (interest rates) and unconventional (credit easing) monetary policy in a model where agency costs generate a spread between deposit and lending rates. We show that unconventional measures can be a powerful substitute for interest rate policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920963
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Frictional asset reallocation under adverse selection
Madison, Florian - 2018
The aim of this paper is to study asset reallocation in financial markets subject to search, bargaining, and information frictions, and to analyze the impact of monetary policy on equilibrium outcomes. The main results show that private information regarding the quality of an asset impairs its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969185