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Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2004

Most economists and observers place the lack of fiscal discipline at the core of the recent Argentine crisis. This begs the question of how countries like Belgium or Italy (pre-Maastricht) could run large fiscal deficits and accumulate debts far beyond those of Argentina, without experiencing...

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International Liquidity Management : Sterilization Policy in Illiquid Financial Markets

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

the international liquidity management aspect of sterilization over the traditional monetary one, a re-focus that seems … liquidity management issues more generally …

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A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM) : Safety Traps and Economic Policy

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2013

. Safety traps share many common features with conventional liquidity traps, but also exhibit important differences, in …

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Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2006

In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...

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Flight to Quality and Collective Risk Management

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2006

We present a model of flight to quality episodes that emphasizes systemic risk and the Knightian uncertainty surrounding these episodes. Agents make risk management decisions with incomplete knowledge. They understand their own shocks, but are uncertain of how correlated their shocks are with...

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Fire Sales in a Model of Complexity

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

Financial assets provide return and liquidity services to their holders. However, during severe financial crises many … asset prices plummet, destroying their liquidity provision function at the worst possible time. In this paper we present a … not control or understand. The liquidity of the market quickly vanishes and a financial crisis ensues. The model exhibits …

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A Dual Liquidity Model for Emerging Markets

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2002

emerging economy, and those affecting borrowing from foreign lenders. This 'dual liquidity' model offers a parsimonious …

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Institutions, Restructuring, and Macroeconomic Performance

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

A growing body of new research has emphasized the macroeconomic consequences of transactional impediments in factor markets, and their role in the recurrent restructuring requirements of modern economies. We first review the function institutional arrangements play in facilitating transactions...

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The Cost of Recessions Revisited : A Reverse-Liquidationist View

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1999

The observation that liquidations are concentrated in recessions has long been the subject of controversy. One view holds that liquidations are beneficial in that they result in increased restructuring. Another view holds that liquidations are privately inefficient and essentially wasteful. This...

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On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1994

This paper analyzes the timing, pace and efficiency of the on- going job reallocation that results from product and process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction during cyclical downturns, when the opportunity cost of...

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