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Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the role “safe and liquid assets” play in the macroeconomy. Many economists take as given that safer assets will also be more liquid, and some go a step further by practically using the two terms as synonyms. However, they are not synonyms:...
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The landscape of the federal funds market changed drastically in the wake of the Great Recession as large-scale asset purchase programs left depository institutions awash with reserves and new regulations made it more costly for these institutions to lend. As traditional levers for implementing...
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characterization offers a richer framework for confronting data from real-world markets, and reveals a number of new economic insights …
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We show that trade frictions in OTC markets result in inefficient private liquidity provision. We develop a dynamic … model of market-based financial intermediation with a two-way interaction between primary credit markets and secondary OTC … markets. Private allocations are generically inefficient because investors and firms fail to internalize how their actions …
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, drawn from a book in progress, examines the history of stock markets for comparable pure price-chasing bubbles, finding nine …
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Economists often say that certain types of assets, e.g., Treasury bonds, are very 'liquid'. Do they mean that these assets are likely to serve as media of exchange or collateral (a definition of liquidity often employed in monetary theory), or that they can be easily sold in a secondary market,...
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I study intermediation in networked markets using a stochastic model of multilateral bargaining in which traders …
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We develop a microfounded model, where agents have the possibility to trade money for government bonds in an over-the-counter market. It allows us to address important open questions about the effects of central bank purchases of government bonds, these being: under what conditions these...
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-the-counter market network structures influence the liquidity of secured funding markets and crisis dynamics. We draw on the framework to …
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study a model in which money helps facilitate trade in decentralized markets, as in Lagos andWright (2005), and real assets …
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