During the financial crisis of 2008, the market value of retirement assets held in stock fell by 32 percent. The objective of this study is to show how a severe financial crisis affects the withdrawal patterns of retirees. Specifically, we examine how withdrawal patterns change when we...

We employ a recursive econometric technique to identify and date multiple financial bubbles in five countries, the US, UK, France, Germany, and Japan. We identify multiple bubbles in each country except Germany for the period, 1973-March 2018. These bubbles are classified into three groups, each...

In response to the near collapse of US securitization markets in 2008, the Federal Reserve created the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, which offered non-recourse loans to finance investors’ purchases of certain highly rated asset-backed securities. We study the effects of this...

We study the use of US dollar central bank swap lines as a tool for addressing dislocations in the foreign currency swap market against the USD since the global financial crisis. We find that the use of the Federal Reserve's USD central bank swap lines was mainly related to tensions in US money...