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Using micro-level data for the U.S., we provide new evidence-at national and state levels - of a positive (negative) relationship between the standard deviation (coefficient of variation) and the average in bank lending-rate markups. In a quantitative theory consistent with these empirical...
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Financial intermediaries issue the majority of liquid securities, and nonfinancial firms have become net savers, holding intermediaries' debt as cash. This paper shows that intermediaries' liquidity creation stimulates growth -- firms hold their debt for unhedgeable investment needs -- but also...
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This paper studies the joint business cycle dynamics of inflation, money growth, nominal and real interest rates and the … velocity of money. I extend and estimate a standard cash and credit monetary model by adding idiosyncratic preference shocks to …
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This paper studies a modern monetary economy: trade in both goods and securities relies on money provided by … intermediaries. While money is valued for its liquidity, its creation requires costly leverage. Inflation, security prices and the … if it helps back inside money, and lower if more inside money is used to trade it. Inflation can be low in security …
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We analyze the relation between market-based credit risk interconnectedness among banks during the crisis and the associated balance sheet linkages via funding and securities holdings. For identification, we use a proprietary dataset that has the funding positions of banks at the bank-to-bank...
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This paper examines the impact of exogenous liquidity shocks in the unsecured interbank market. We evaluate the effects of idiosyncratic liquidity shocks - arising from deposits outflow at the bank level - and of the aggregate liquidity shock related to the U.S. tapering observed between May and...
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monetary policy a complement to or a substitute for macroprudential policy? What is the role of money-financed fiscal expansion … fourth, that money-financed fiscal expansion is effective in raising output and inflation, and accompanied with lower credit …
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What is so special about banks that their demise often triggers government intervention? In this paper we show that, even ignoring interconnectedness issues, the failure of a bank causes a larger welfare loss than the failure of other institutions. The reason is that agents in need of liquidity...
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This paper studies (non-)equivalence of collateralized credit and asset sale for information-sensitive assets in over-the-counter markets. A signaling game refined by the undefeated equilibrium endogenizes the choice between pooling and separating offers and addresses the payment puzzle. The...
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money market destroys endogenous risk aversion and allows banks to manage credit risk and liquidity risk independently. The … separating effect of interbank money markets and recreate endogenous risk aversion of banks. …
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