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A major lesson of the recent financial crisis is that the interbank lending market is crucial for banks that face uncertainty regarding their liquidity needs. This paper examines the efficiency of the interbank lending market in allocating funds and the optimal policy of a central bank in...
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We analyse the poisonous interaction between bank rescues, financial fragility and sovereign debt discounts. In our model balance sheet constrained financial intermediaries finance both capital expenditure of intermediate goods producers and government deficits. The financial intermediaries face...
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meltdown. Bagehot's advice to 'lend freely at high rates against good collateral' has been stretched to the limit in order to … discussing the collateral polices related to central banks' lender-of-last-resort and market-maker-of-last-resort policies and … concept was central to Hyman P. Minsky's theory of financial instability, and suggest that his insights should be integrated …
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This paper investigates the efficiency of various monetary policy instruments to stabilize asset prices in a liquidity crisis. We propose a macro-finance model featuring both traditional and shadow banks subject to funding risk. When banks are well capitalized, they have access to money markets...
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This paper documents how traditional and shadow banks interacted with one another during the 2007 financial crisis, when both assets and liabilities flew from shadow to traditional banks. To rationalize their behavior, we propose a simple model which demonstrates the symbiotic coexistence and...
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This paper studies the effects of harmonizing collateral policy in a monetary union. In 2007, the European Central Bank … replaced national collateral lists with a single list specifying which assets euro area banks can pledge as collateral. Banks … harmonized collateral framework facilitates cross-border lending to borrowing-constrained firms and, thereby, increases financial …
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This paper studies the effects of harmonizing collateral policy in a monetary union. In 2007, the European Central Bank … replaced national collateral lists with a single list specifying which assets euro area banks can pledge as collateral. Banks … harmonized collateral framework facilitates cross-border lending to borrowing-constrained firms and, thereby, increases financial …
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While the direct effect of lender-of-last-resort (LOLR) facilities is to forestall the default of financial firms that lose funding liquidity, an indirect effect is to allow these firms to minimize deleveraging sales of illiquid assets. This unintended consequence of LOLR facilities manifests...
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