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worth channel, as defined by Mian and Sufi (2014), which affected the wealth of leveraged households; and a bank net worth … link between their borrowing capacity and house prices. The interaction among the housing net worth channel, the bank net … variance of housing risk and a deterioration in the collateral value of mortgages for bank funding. Both shocks are able to …
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matter the relative abundance of reserves, VRT encourage market activity and support the central bank's control over interest … the central bank on market outcomes and (ii) a comparison with the implementation framework currently adopted by the …
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Estimating the effect of Federal Reserve's announcements of Large-Scale Asset Purchase (LSAP) programs on corporate credit risk is complicated by the simultaneity of policy decisions and movements in prices of risky financial assets, as well as by the fact that both interest rates of assets...
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Between August 2011 and December 2012 the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) used date-based forward guidance to help stimulate the U.S. economy and promote its objectives of maximum employment and price stability. Some have argued that the formulation of the guidance that the FOMC used may...
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This paper reviews the theoretical literature at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance to draw lessons on the connection between vulnerabilities in the financial system and the macroeconomy, and on how monetary policy affects that connection. This literature finds that financial...
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This paper reviews literature on the empirical relationship between vulnerabilities in the financial system and the macroeconomy, and how monetary policy affects that connection. Financial vulnerabilities build up over time, with both risk appetite and risk taking rising during economic...
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, making the run self-fulfilling and negatively affecting investment. In this framework I study how central bank credit …
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reduced their liquidity after the Fed's founding. The industry's response illustrates how the introduction of a lender of last …
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Standard dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models assume a Taylor rule and forecast an increase in interest rates immediately after the 2007-2009 economic recession given the predicted output and inflation, contradictory to the extended period of near-zero interest rate policy (ZIRP)...
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yields, credit spreads and equity prices-and through bank lending. The effects on Treasury yields and term premiums appear to … be longer-lived than previously documented, while the effects on credit spreads and especially bank lending also appear …
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