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In response to the Great Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and many other central banks have adopted unconventional monetary policy instruments. We investigate if one of these, purchases of long-term government debt, could be a valuable addition to conventional...
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either the loan to value ratio declines or house prices fall, we observe a decrease in the money multiplier. We argue that … the central bank should respond to the fall in the money multiplier and therefore to the reduction in house prices or the … money multiplier in response to the drop in the loan to collateral value ratio. …
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We construct a search-theoretic model where fiat money coexists with real assets, and all assets can be used as a media … facts: (i) fiat money can be valued despite being dominated in its rate of return; (ii) real assets with identical dividend …
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In this study, we develop a search-and-matching monetary growth model to analyze the effects of inflation on economic growth and social welfare by introducing endogenous economic growth via capital externality into a two-sector search-and-matching model. We find that the channel through which...
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in productivity: hours fall, nominal wages hardly react, and real wages go up with some delay. Regarding money supply …
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only the money growth rate if commitment to interbank contracts is not limited. Otherwise, a proper combination of central …
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This work studies the relations between income distribution and monetary/fiscal policies using an credit-augmented version of the agent-based Keynesian model in Dosi et al. (2010). We model a banking sector and a monetary authority setting interest rates and credit lending conditions in a...
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Following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, interbank borrowing and lending dropped, whereas reserve holdings of depository institutions skyrocketed, as the Fed injected liquidity into the U.S. banking sector. This paper introduces bank liquidity risk and limited market participation into a...
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We develop a tractable model of banks' liquidity management and the credit channel of monetary policy. Banks finance loans by issuing demand deposits. Loans are illiquid, and transfers of deposits across banks must be settled with reserves in a frictional over the counter market. To mitigate the...
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We formulate a generalization of the traditional medium-of-exchange function of money in contexts where there is … that the option to settle transactions directly with money strengthens the stance of sellers of goods and services vis … "latent money demand" considerations imply monetary policy remains effective through medium-of-exchange channels even if the …
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