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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2016

This paper proposes using foreign exchange (FX) options with dierent strike prices and maturities (\the term structure of volatility smiles") to capture both FX expectations and risks. Using daily options data for six major currency pairs, we show that the cross section and term structure of options...
Keywords: exchange rates, excess returns, options pricing, volatility smile, risk, term structure of implied volatility, quantile regression
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2016

A theory of money needs a proper place for financial intermediaries. Intermediaries diversify risks and create inside money. In downturns, micro-prudent intermediaries shrink their lending activity, fire-sell assets and supply less inside money, exactly when money demand rises. The resulting Fisher ...
Keywords: Monetary Economics, (Inside) Money, Endogenous Risk Dynamics;
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2016

Between 1996 and 2013, India’s central bank injected or drained liquidity from banks through changes in cash reserve requirements. We analyze the lending responses to these quantitative tools of monetary policy using branch level lending data. We focus on the withinbank variation across different ...
Keywords: monetary policy, Banks, India
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2016

We investigate the role of intermediary ownership form in providing reliable financial services to consumers. Exploiting a novel dataset of the universe of consumer complaints to state regulators, we find significant differences between stock and mutual insurers in the number of complaints made abou...
Keywords: Intermediary Transparency, Insurance, Consumer Financial Protection
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2016

The focus of this paper is on news-driven business cycles in small open economies. We make two significant contributions. First, we develop a small open economy model where the presence of financial frictions permits the replication of business cycle co-movements in response to news shocks. Second, ...
Keywords: Business Cycles, open economy, macroeconomics, Financial Frictions, VAR
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