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"This paper characterizes the labor supply and borrowing of a household facing collateral requirements that limit its debt and compel it to accumulate equity in its durable goods stock. The household's discount rate exceeds the market rate of interest, so it would otherwise finance increased...
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This paper examines the role of home production in estimating life-cycle labor supply. I show that, consistent with previous studies, ignoring an individual’s time spent on home production when estimating the Frisch elasticity of labor supply biases its estimate downwards. I also show,...
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We develop a model of commodity money and use it to analyze the following two questions motivated by issues in monetary history: What are the conditions under which Gresham's Law holds? And, what are the mechanics of a debasement (lowering the metallic content of coins)? The model contains light...
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Several recent studies have recommended greater reliance on subordinated debt as a tool to discipline bank risk taking …
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risk-free rate has been attributed by some authors to frictions, transaction costs or durability. However, such frictions … risk-free rate. We find that time-separable preferences fail at all horizons, and none of the models perform well at the … more success matching the first and second moments of the observed risk-free rate. A major unresolved issue is to …
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