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This study analyzes the emergence of secular stagnation as the consequence of a rise in the preference for liquidity … model where agents derive utility from holding assets of different degrees of liquidity. In this environment, rational …
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, this set-up gives rise to an (il-)liquidity premium on non-eligible assets. Then, a quantitative easing policy, which …
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-in-advance economy. Liquidity transformation by banks increases aggregate consumption and investment relative to a cash-only economy but … can also lead to inefficient overinvestment. Furthermore, liquidity transformation can lead to multiple steady … 'liquidity trap', in which nominal bond rates equal zero and banks are indifferent between holding bonds and reserves. Whether …
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provide liquidity at a very high rate of interest. However, most of the theoretical literature on liquidity provision suggests … reserves available is limited. A high price for this liquidity allows banks that need it most to self-select. To the contrary …. -- liquidity provision ; lender of last resort ; Bagehot ; commodity money …
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The shift to inflation targeting has contributed to the relatively low inflation observed in some emerging market economies although, as noted by many economists, the preconditions required for a successful implementation were not in place. The existence of managed exchange rate regimes, a...
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Central banks repo market operations and liquidity infusions occasion a structural liquidity mismatch in bank balance … sheets and increase the dependence on central bank liquidity. This paper argues for what I term “Circular Monetary Economics …”, an approach to monetary policy that seeks to green and prudentially insulate the design and implementation of liquidity …
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We investigate how the Mundell-Tobin effect, i.e., a positive relation between in ation and capital investment, changes the optimal monetary policy prescription in a framework that combines overlapping generations and new monetarist models. We find that the Friedman rule is optimal if and only...
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We develop an equilibrium model of the monetary policy transmission mechanism that highlights information frictions in the market for money and search frictions in the labour market. The information friction increases the persistence in the response of interest rates following monetary policy...
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This paper studies the optimal maturity structure for government debt when markets for liquidity insurance are … in short and long maturities solves a liquidity insurance problem, but optimal yield curve policy is only possible if …
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the absence of central bank intervention, the incentive of financial intermediaries to free ride on liquidity in good … states may result in excessively low liquidity in bad states. In the prevailing mixed-strategy equilibrium, depositors are … worse off than if banks would coordinate on more liquid investment. It is shown that public provision of liquidity improves …
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