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investment of money market funds (MMFs) at the Federal Reserve's overnight reverse repo (ON RRP) facility has continued to …
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The rate-of-return-dominance puzzle asks why low-return assets, like fiat money, are used in actual economies given … monetary models which arbitrarily restrict the marketability properties of alternative assets to make money valuable are … difficult to assess. In this paper, I provide a framework in which fiat money has value in equilibrium, even though a higher …
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DSGE model. Considering SVAR models in which either the interest rate is predetermined for money or these two monetary … estimated monetary policy rule is strongly sensitive to the identification scheme. This suggests that the way money is …
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We use high-frequency intraday interest rate data to measure euro area monetary policy shocks on the days of ECB interest rate announcements between 2002 and 2013. In line with Gürkaynak et al. (2005), we look at monetary policy shocks along two time dimensions: one related to the current level...
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This paper studies the relationship between the business cycle and financial intermediation in the euro area. We establish stylized facts and study their stability during the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis. Long-term interest rates have been exceptionally high and...
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This paper provides an analytically tractable theoretical framework to study the optimal supply of central bank reserves when the demand for reserves is uncertain and nonlinear. We fully characterize the optimal supply of central bank reserves and associated market equilibrium. We find that the...
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Does the federal funds rate respond to shocks when aggregate reserves are in the trillions of dollars? Has banks' demand for reserves moved over time? We provide a structural time-varying estimate of the slope of the reserve demand curve over 2010-21. We estimate a time-varying vector...
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interbank money market. This paper shows in particular that a central bank not only has the capacity but indeed must strive to … event of temporary money demand shocks. During the first part of the crisis, the ECB acted in accordance with the separation …
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the retail deposit supply owing to, for example, a decrease in bank reserves or in money demand, banks try to substitute …
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We build a general equilibrium model with financial frictions that impede the effectiveness of monetary policy in stimulating output. Agents with heterogeneous productivity can increase investment by levering up, but this increases interim liquidity risk. In equilibrium, the more productive...
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