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Unequal and Unstable: Income Inequality and Bank Risk

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We present a model in which income inequality interacts with banks' risk‐taking incentives, generating financial instability. Competition and deposit insurance cause some banks to lend to lower‐income borrowers at underpriced rates, creating “risky banks” that fail in downturns, while others lend to higher‐income borrowers and avoid default ...
YULIYAN MITKOV, ULRICH SCHÜWER
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Biases in a Model with Labor‐Market Frictions

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop a model with labor‐market matching frictions that is subject to a range of shocks, including shocks to matching efficiency and bargaining power, and use the model to examine how monetary policy should respond to such shocks. We show that optimal monetary policy responds effectively to these shocks, producing economic outcomes that ...
RICHARD DENNIS, TATIANA KIRSANOVA
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Banking with Inside Money: An Efficiency Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We show that banks do not decentralize the first best in a nominal Diamond–Dybvig economy with inside money. Furthermore, state‐contingent deposit contracts do not expand the consumption possibility set to include the first best either. Central banks can improve welfare but only for savers and only with unconventional monetary policy. Finally,
DAVID RIVERO   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

EU ETS Market Expectations and Rational Bubbles

open access: yesJournal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) experienced sharp allowance price increases from 2018 onward, prompting claims that rational bubbles were driving the surge. We reassess this hypothesis using expectations based on futures prices.
CHRISTOPH WEGENER   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Games with Discontinuous Payoffs.

open access: yes
The author proves an equilibrium existence result for a class of games with an infinite number of strategies. The author's theorem generalizes an earlier result by P. Dasgupta and E. Maskin. The article also identifies conditions under which the limit of
Simon, Leo K
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Twin Defaults and Bank Capital Requirements

open access: yesThe Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine optimal capital requirements in a quantitative general equilibrium model with banks exposed to nondiversifiable borrower default risk. Contrary to standard models of bank default risk, our framework captures the limited upside, but significant downside risk of loan portfolio returns.
CATERINA MENDICINO   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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