Lack of transparency increases the probability of a banking crisis following financial liberalization. In a country where government policy is not transparent, banks may tend to increase credit above the optimal level. - Mehrez and Kaufmann investigate how transparency affects the probability of...

We estimate a model of time-of-use (TOU) consumption and choice among optional TOU tariffs in which the customer's choice among tariffs is based on its demand parameters, which vary in the population. We simulate the impact on consumption, consumer surplus, and profit of several optional TOU...

December 1999 - Markets have had limited success predicting crises and might do better by drawing on private information available to resident enterprise managers, who seem to know better than markets about future movements in exchange rates. Kaufmann, Mehrez, and Schmukler investigate whether...

This article reports on a round table panel discussion entitled « Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Future of the Eurozone », which took place at the 29th International Symposium on Money, Banking and Finance, at the University of Nantes, June 28-29, 2012. The panel was chaired by Andy Mullineux...

The fixed rate tender is one of the main procedures used by central banks in the implementation of their monetary policies. While academic research has largely dismissed the procedure owing to its tendency to encourage overbidding, central banks such as the ECB and the Bank of England have...

This article derives a central bank's optimal liquidity supply towards a money market with an unrestricted lending facility. We show that when the effect of liquidity on market rates is not too small, and the monetary authority is concerned with both interest rates and liquidity conditions, then...

Among the most puzzling observations on the euro money market are the discount in the weekly refinancing operations, the more aggressive bidding under uncertainty, the temporary flatness of bid schedules, and the development of interest rate spreads. To explain these observations, we consider a...