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Farhi, Emmanuel; Tirole, Jean. |
The paper elicits a mechanism by which private leverage choices exhibit strategic complementarities through the reaction of monetary policy. When everyone engages in maturity transformation, authorities have little choice but facilitating refinancing. In turn, refusing to adopt a risky balance sheet lowers the return on equity. The key ingredient is that monetary policy is non-targeted. The ex post benefits from a monetary bailout accrue in proportion to the number amount of leverage, while the distortion costs are to a large extent fixed. This insight has important consequences. First, banks choose to correlate their risk exposures. Second, private borrowers may deliberately choose to increase their interest-rate sensitivity following bad news about... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Monetary Policy; Funding Liquidity Risk; Strategic Complementarities; Macro-Prudential Supervision; Financial Economics; E44; E52; G28. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52545 |
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Asjaha, T.A.; Jooste, Andre. |
Relative change in agricultural prices determines farmers` investment decisions, productivity and income. Thus, understanding the factors that influence agricultural prices is fundamental for sustainable growth in this sector and the rest of the economy. This paper investigates the short- and long-run impacts of monetary policy changes on relative agricultural prices in South Africa by employing Johansen cointegration analysis and the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) respectively. The results of Johansen cointegration analysis reject the long-run money neutrality hypothesis which suggests that the rate of increase in prices is not unit proportional to the rate of increase in money supply. On the other hand, the results of the dynamic relationships... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Monetary Policy; Error Correction Models; Agricultural Prices; Industrial Prices; Money Neutrality; Agricultural Finance; Financial Economics. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8016 |
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