This paper analyzes interbank markets under currency boards. Under such an environment, problematic endogeneity issues common to other monetary regimes do not arise. Using daily data from the interbank markets in Bulgaria and Lithuania we show, that contrary to the existing literature, overnight...

The classical doctrine of the Lender of Last Resort, elaborated by Thornton (1802) and Bagehot (1873), asserts that the Central Bank should lend to "illiquid but solvent" banks under certain conditions. Several authors have argued that this view is now obsolete: when interbank markets are...

Las políticas de compra de activos (QE, por sus siglas en inglés) implementadas en los últimos años por los bancos centrales han tenido un impacto profundo en el funcionamiento de los mercados monetarios, dando lugar a un gran exceso de reservas bancarias y presionando los tipos de interés...

En este trabajo analizamos el impacto de la introducción de una moneda digital emitida por el banco central (CBDC, por sus siglas en inglés) sobre el marco operativo de la política monetaria y la macroeconomía en su conjunto. Para ello, desarrollamos un modelo neokeynesiano con bancos...

We consider a quantity-setting duopoly market where firms lack perfect knowledge of the market demand function. They use estimated and therefore misspecified demand functions instead and determine their optimal strategies from the corresponding subjective payoff functions. The central issue of...

This paper investigates the performance of efficient portfolios in a financial market with heterogeneous investors including rational traders, noise traders, and chartists. A generalization of the security market line result states that, regardless of the diversity of beliefs, the portfolios of...