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... term expectedcosts.Undoubtedlythiswouldbeverypainful,but(bydefinition)lesspainfulthan the alternative of notdoingso.JohnKennethGalbraithtoucheduponasimilarpracticalconundrum someyearsagowhenhesaid 20  “Politicsisnot the art of the possible. Itischoosingbetween the unpalatableand the disastrous”. Thismightwellbewhere the centralbanks of the AME’sarenowheaded,absent the vigorous pursuitbygovernments of the alternativepoliciessuggestedabove. B. ... increasehasbeennotable,  72 Thisisnottodenysuccessfuleffortsbyanumber of countries,includingChina,toexpandmarketsinother EME’s. Of coursethisstillleaves the broaderquestion of the robustness of the totality of thosemarketsin the event of aseriousdownturnin the AME’s. 73 ThisproblemisanalogoustothatfacedbyJapanesecorporationsin the 1990’s,aftermanyyears of debt financedinvestmentwhichprovedunprofitable.Koo(2003)stronglycontendsthat the weakness of investment spendinginJapanin the 1990’swasduetothis“balancesheeteffect”,andwasnotdueto ashortage of loans causedbyaweakenedbankingsystem. 74 SeeBIS(2012)p29forafullerdocumentation.AlsoseeMcKinsey(2010)whoidentify the householdsectorin five of the fourteencountriestheyconsiderashavingahighprobability of futuredeleveraging.TheyidentifySpain, the US, the UK,CanadaandKorea.While the householdsectorsinBrazil,Russia, ChinaandIndiawerenotjudged tobeoverleveraged,notethat the dataconsideredextendedonlyto2009.Thus the reportmissed the recent sharpincreasesinhouseholddebtlevelsinthosecountries. 45   TettG(2012)“Sizecanbedeadlyinalowrateworld”FinancialTimes17May  TurnerP.(2011)“Is the long‐terminterestrateapolicyvictim,apolicyvariableorapolicylodestar”–BIS WorkingPaper367,Basel,December  WaldropM.M.(1992)“Complexity”–LemonandSchuster Paperbacks–NewYork  WedelJR.(2009)“ShadowElite”–BasicBooks,NewYork  WhiteW.R(2004)“ArechangesinFinancialStructureExtendingSafetyNets?”–BISWorkingPaper250, Basel  WhiteW.R(2006a)“IsPriceStabilityEnough?”–BISWorkingPaper205,April  White ... place, conscious of the possibilitythatremedies(more of the same)mightactuallymake thingsworse overtime. The Austrian conclusion was that credit created by the banking system, rather...

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... Sources of Bank Reserves Figure 5 illustrates the link between the size of the Federal Reserve s liquidity facilities and the quantity of reserves in the banking system. The top half of this ... increase in bank reserves need not be inflationary, because the payment of interest on reserves allows the Federal Reserve to adjust short-term interest rates independently of the level of reserves. Key ... Skeie. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. 11 Sources of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 12:20

... for the Asia Focus is a periodic newsletter issued by the Country Analysis Unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The information contained in this newsletter is meant to provide useful ... postponed the sale of shares due to the poor performance of the domestic stock market. The bank reportedly plans to conduct its IPO in the second half of 2011 and sell up to a 20% stake, 10% of which ... in the Asia Pacific region. The views expressed in this publication are solely that of the author and do not necessarily represent the position of the Federal Reserve System. V ietnam’s banking...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... credit to AIG, and other Fed assets. Liabilities: Other—Reverse repos, Treasury cash holdings, and deposits with Federal Reserve Banks other than reserve balances and excluding the Supplementary ... Federal Reserve Summary The balance sheet remained little changed, decreasing by $9 billion for the week ended September 15. Bank reserve balances decreased $118 billion, offset ... Market Indicators Summary The curve of expected rates from the fed funds futures market is practically unchanged since the August 10 FOMC meeting. The fed funds futures markets...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... reect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. Abstract The rapid growth of the market-based nancial system since the mid-1980s changed the nature of ... refers to the enhancement of the credit quality of debt issued by the intermediary through the use of priority of claims. For example, the credit quality of senior deposits is better than the credit ... contraction in the size of the shadow banking system, thereby protecting the broader economy from the dangers of a collapse in the supply of credit as the financial crisis unfolded. While these programs...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... nature of an advance, as well as the lien the Federal Home Loan Bank has on the other assets of the borrower, means that the claims of the taxpayer in a failed bank are subordinated to those of the ... those of the authors and are not necessar- ily reective of views at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the authors. Federal ... “breaking the buck”. The susceptibility of MMMFs to runs is illustrated in the aftermath of the failure of Lehman in September 2008 when a standalone MMMF the Reserve Fund broke the buck. In the...

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... get bid up by the amount that the money supply increases regardless of the fraction of traders in the economy, because the quantity of the endowment is constant. The determination of nominal interest ... through the second quarter of 1991. The data used in this study have been detrended using the Hodrick- Prescott (H-P) filter. Since the H-P trend can be thought of as the anticipated part of the data, ... decreasing function of the nominal interest rate because the interest rate is the opportunity cost of holding cash (liquidity). So a decrease in the supply of money must cause interest rates to...

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... understanding the role of the interbank mar- ket. The main pu rpose of this market is to redistribute the …xed amount of reserves that is he ld within the banking system. In our model, banks may ... views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. ... lent at nominal rates in the interbank market, along the lines of Skeie (2008) and Martin (2006). In the nominal version of the model, the central bank targets the real interbank rate by o¤ering...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... including the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Riksbank of Sw eden, and the Swiss National Bank, igniting similar debates in all corners of the ... assumption is that the price the firm sets is exclusive of the sales tax. This means that if the government cuts sales taxes, then consumers face a lower store price of exactly the amount of the tax cuts ... x of thrift We conclude the paper by illustrating the parado x of thrift in the extended model that allows for endogenous capital. Beside s confirming our previous conclusion and illustrating the...

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... parentheses, the number of observations is reported in brackets. The DD estimate is in bold. The acceptance rates of both types of banks before the start of the financial crisis in August ... Landesbanken and savings banks exist, the general view is that savings banks would rescue their respective Landesbank. Savings banks are not only owners of Landesbanken, they also profit from the ... overview of the German Landesbanken and their respective owners. Ownership by savings banks is denoted by (S). The upper part of the panel shows the three Landesbanken that are affected by the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... transfer ownership of his/her assets. The person who creates the trust is called the grantor. The trustee is the person who will manage the assets of the trust. A successor trustee is the person who ... the assets of the trust if the initial trustee is no longer able to manage the trust due to death, illness, or resignation. A person who receives the benefit of the trust’s assets is called the ... requesting payment is the trustee(s) named on the bond(s).  The trustee(s) named on the bond(s) signs the request for payment on the back of the bond(s) as trustee(s) in your presence.  The amount being...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... formation of banks of discount for the poor, and con- sequently prevent the formation of banks of deposit; the banks of discount being the banks of deposit for the rich. In like manner, the impediments ... the bank will not fail ? Let us examine the nature of the alleged securities:— 1. The character of the clerks. 2 The security given by the clerks. 3. The character of the managers and trustees. 4. ... shareholders of the bank would, to the extent of their entire property, be liable for the acts of their clerks and managers. So that the sole responsibility as to the successful management of the business...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... antipathy over the Putin- Medvedev job swap touched off some of the largest political protests Russia has seen since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Despite these unprecedented protests, the Russian ... the Libyan precedent and believes the West is pursuing a reckless policy of regime change that will destabilize the region and could be used against Russia. The Russians point to the rise of ... milestones in the development of key systems, thereby sustaining the modernization program that has been under way since the late 1990s. For example, in August, the PLA Navy commissioned the Liaoning,...

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