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Liquidity regulation, the Central Bank, and the money market : conference paper

Scheubel, Beatrice; Körding, Julia - 2013 - This version: 15 February 2013

crisis, recent advances in global liquidity regulation try to curb the excessive reliance on short-term wholesale funding … regulation may interfere with the central bank's influence on short-term money market rates. This paper tries to fill the gap in … asymmetric information. Regulation can be welfare-improving in the presence of an externality and also in case of collateral …

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Utility Price Regulation and Time Inconsistency : Comparisons with Monetary Policy

Levine, Paul - 2010

We examine the hold-up problem of price regulation and compare it with the monetary policy credibility problem. For …-up problem in regulation turns out to be more serious than the inflation bias problem in monetary policy. Even with far …

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Banking behaviour and political business cycle in Africa : the role of independent regulatory policies of the central bank

Ofori-Sasu, Daniel; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Nsafoah, … - 2024

This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...

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Bank Deposit Pricing in Competitive Oligopoly When Breaking Through the Zero Lower Bound

Bloechlinger, Andreas - 2020

Low key rates hurt the profits of deposit-taking institutions in a differentiated Bertrand game if there is neither a tax on banknotes, nor a limit on its quantity, nor a reduction of its quality. By making the electronic dollar the unit of account and taxing paper currency, the central bank can...

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Riding the Yield Curve : Risk Taking Behavior in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Chami, Ralph - 2020

Investors seek to hedge against interest rate risk by taking long or short positions on bonds ofdifferent maturities. We study changes in risk taking behavior in a low interest rateenvironment by estimating a market stochastic discount factor that is non-linear and thereforeconsistent with the...

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Optimal Monetary Policy Under Bounded Rationality

Benchimol, Jonathan - 2019

The form of bounded rationality characterizing the representative agent is key in the choice of the optimal monetary policy regime. While inflation targeting prevails for myopia that distorts agents' inflation expectations, price level targeting emerges as the optimal policy under myopia...

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Market Power and Monetary Policy

Aquilante, Tommaso - 2019

In this paper we explore the link between monetary policy and market power. We start by establishing several facts on market power in UK markets using micro data. First, while no clear trend emerges for market concentration, market power measured by markups estimated at the firm level have...

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Long-term Business Relationships, Bargaining and Monetary Policy

Abbritti, Mirko; Aguilera-Bravo, Asier; Trani, Tommaso - 2021

We analyze a monetary economy where firms trading intermediate inputs engage in long-term business-to-business (B2B) relationships. We focus on features such as search for business partners, price negotiation and productivity levels that can make it convenient to separate a relationship. These...

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Understanding Monetary Policy : The Real Sector and Welfare

Lucchetta, Marcella - 2023

This paper shows theoretically the linkages among monetary policy rate, the real sector demand for loans with supply shocks, aggregate risks, and social welfare. We prove that a) when the loans’ demand is elastic bank competition and the policy rate decrease risks and increase the amount of...

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The Costs of Macroprudential Deleveraging in a Liquidity Trap

Chen, Jiaqian - 2020

We examine the effects of various borrower-based macroprudential tools in a New Keynesian environment where both real and nominal interest rates are low. Our model features long-term debt, housing transaction costs and a zero-lower bound constraint on policy rates. We find that the long-term...

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