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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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Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Chari, V. V. - 1999

We provide an introduction to optimal fiscal and monetary policy using the primal approach to optimal taxation. We use this approach to address how fiscal and monetary policy should be set over the long run and over the business cycle. We find four substantive lessons for policymaking: Capital...

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The Monetary and Fiscal History of Brazil, 1960-2016

Ayres, Joao - 2019

Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the first oil shock (1973), but accelerated again afterward, reaching levels above 100 percent on average between 1980 and 1994. This last period coincided with severe balance of...

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Time Consistency and Free-Riding in a Monetary Union

Chari, V. V. - 2002

We analyze the setting of monetary and nonmonetary policies in monetary unions. We show that in these unions a time inconsistency problem in monetary policy leads to a novel type of free- rider problem in the setting of nonmonetary policies, such as labor market policy, fiscal policy, and bank...

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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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