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The article reviews basic principles and directions of the interest rate policy of the Bank of Russia in the second half of 2006. It presents some developments in bank liquidity indicators and by using a simple statistical model provides an explanation of introduction of new bank liquidity...
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Researchers at central banks increasingly turn to counterfactual simulations to estimate the danger of contagion owing to exposures in the interbank loan market. The present paper summarises the findings of such simulations, provides a critical assessment of the modelling assumptions on which...
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We propose and test a new channel that links funding liquidity risk and interest rates in short-term funding markets. Borrowers with high liquidity risk are willing to pay a markup to lock in their funding, independent of risk premiums demanded by lenders. We test the channel using unique...
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reduction that we estimate would result from refinancing under HARP, we find that the cumulative five-year default rate on prime …
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This paper proposes a model of how agents adjust their asset holdings in response to losses in general equilibrium. By emphasising the relation between deflation and financial distress, we capture some original features of the early debt-deflation literature, such as distress selling,...
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This paper proposes a model of how agents adjust their asset holdings in response to losses in general equilibrium. By emphasising the relation between deflation and financial distress, we capture some original features of the early debt-deflation literature, such as distress selling,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063361
reduction that we estimate would result from refinancing under HARP, we find that the cumulative five-year default rate on prime … per dollar of balance for mortgages that refinance under HARP. -- refinancing ; default …
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This paper empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Bank of Canada's term Purchase and Resale Agreement (PRA) facility in reducing short-term bank funding pressures, as measured by the CDOR-OIS spread. It examines the behaviour of this spread around both term PRA announcement dates and term...
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mortgage refinancing activity and spur consumption by focusing on the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). The policy … in refinancing activity by HARP. More than three million eligible borrowers with primarily fixed-rate mortgages … spending by borrowers increased significantly after refinancing and regions more exposed to the program saw a relative increase …
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Refinancing a first mortgage puts legal principles in conflict when other, junior, liens also exist. On one hand, the … principle that seniority follows time priority leaves the new refinancing mortgage junior to mortgages that were junior to the … original, refinanced first mortgage. On the other hand, the principle of equitable subrogation gives the refinancing mortgage …
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