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The two channels of default on unsecured consumer debt are (i) bankruptcy, which legally grants partial or complete removal of unsecured debt under certain circumstances, and (ii) delinquency, which is informal default via nonpayment. In the United States, both channels are used routinely. This...
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We prove that in competitive market economies with no insurance for idiosyncratic risks, agents will always overinvest in illiquid long term assets and underinvest in short term liquid assets. We take as our setting the seminal model of Diamond and Dybvig (1983), who first posed the question in...
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This paper documents and interprets two facts central to the dynamics of informal default or "delinquency" on unsecured consumer debt. First, delinquency does not mean a persistent cessation of payment. In particular, we observe that for individuals 60 to 90 days late on payments, 85% make...
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including the stock market macro liquidity deviation factor. We use a probit framework to predict US business cycles, as defined … by the NBER between 1959Q1 and 2011Q4. We find that combining the yield curve parameter with the stock market liquidity … monitoring not only the yield curve but also stock market depth and liquidity, and their deviation from one another …
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At an aggregate level, formal default via bankruptcy and informal default via delinquency are both quantitatively important in consumer credit markets. In this paper, we use a variety of microeconomic data sources to construct a salient set of facts on the use of unsecured debt and both formal...
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We estimate the option value of municipal liquidity by studying bond market activity and public sector hiring decisions … eligibility population cutoffs introduced by the federal sector's Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) to study the effects of an … emergency liquidity option on yields, primary debt issuance, and public sector employment. We find that while the announcement …
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On September 3-4, 2009, SUERF and Utrecht University School of Economics jointly organized the 28th SUERF Colloquium on "The Quest for Stability" in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The papers contained in this SUERF Study jointly published with DNB and Rabobank are based on contributions to this...
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of macro-prudential policy like reserve requirements can help alleviate liquidity shocks to the EM banking system … interbank markets. Money markets enable banks to engage in risk-sharing against liquidity shocks and are sensitive to global … liquidity shocks to EMs as compared to benchmark short-term bond yields. Next, we disentangle the transmission into its various …
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and liquidity has increased since the late 1990s, and to a lesser extent because economic growth has slowed. We reach this …
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We show that popular models of flight-to-liquidity shocks have strongly counterfactual implicationsfor asset returns … model, we can show that liquidity shocks played a negligible role and became virtually irrelevant after 2010. We also show … that the slowdown in productivity growth, not liquidity shocks, caused the post-2010 fall in the natural rate …
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