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trading book exposures, this paper assesses the sensitivity of central counterparties’ required risk buffers, or capital … point-in-time versus stress-period basis, whether the risk tolerance metric adequately captures tail events, and the … ability—or lack thereof—to define exposures on the basis of netting sets spanning multiple risk factors. Our results …
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as soon as bank risk appetite heats up. Within this shorter time span, cuts must then be deeper than otherwise to also …
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Why do asset price bubbles continue to appear in various markets? This paper provides an overview of recent literature on bubbles, with significant attention given to behavioral models and rational models with frictions. Unlike the standard rational models, the new literature is able to model...
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Many central banks in low-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are modernising their monetary policy frameworks. Standard statistical procedures have had limited success in identifying the channels of monetary transmission in such countries. Here we take a narrative approach, following Romer...
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interconnectedness within institutions and markets on funding and market liquidity risk within financial systems. The Systemic Risk …, subject to individual changes in risk profiles and common changes in market conditions. This approach can then be used (i) to … liquidity risk within a macroprudential framework that, if used to motivate a capital charge or insurance premia, provides …
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Monetary aggregates are now much less used as policy instruments as identifying the right measure has become difficult and interest rate transmission has worked well in an increasingly complex financial system. In this process, little attention was paid to the potential spillover of excess...
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We examine the effects of unconventional monetary policy (UMP) events in the United States on asset price risk using … risk-neutral density functions estimated from options prices. Based on an event study including a key exchange rate, an … equity index, and five commodities, we find that “tail risk” diminishes in the immediate aftermath of UMP events …
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This paper surveys the evidence on the effectiveness of monetary transmission in low-income countries. It is hard to come away from this review with much confidence in the strength of monetary transmission in such countries. We distinguish between the "facts on the ground" and "methodological...
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The GCC countries maintain a policy of open capital accounts and a pegged (or nearly-pegged) exchange rate, thereby reducing their freedom to run an independent monetary policy. This paper shows, however, that the pass-through of policy rates to retail rates is on the low side, reflecting the...
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This paper estimates a disequilibrium model of credit supply and demand to evaluate the relative role of these factors in the slowdown of credit flows in the Jordanian economy in the wake of the global financial crisis. The empirical analysis suggests that the credit stagnation is mainly driven...
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