Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2025

This paper proposes a concept of a global currency and introduces a “global currency pricing” specification into a standard N-country open economy macroeconomic model. A global currency is defined as a virtual unit of account that is exclusively used for international trade invoicing and is form...
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Investment Finance

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May 2015

We construct a traded funding liquidity measure from stock returns. Guided by a model, we extract the measure as the return spread between two beta-neutral portfolios constructed using stocks with high and low margins, to control for their sensitivity to the aggregate funding shocks. Our measure of ...
Keywords: Funding liquidity, Leverage, Margin requirements
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2016

The Basel III net stable funding requirement, scheduled for adoption in 2018, requires banks to use a minimum share of long-term wholesale funding and deposits to fund their assets. This paper introduces a stable funding requirement (SFR) into a small open economy DSGE model featuring a banking sect...
Keywords: DSGE models, prudential policy, monetary policy, small open economy, sticky interest rates, Banks, wholesale funding
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Household Finance

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May 2023

We document and quantify a housing portfolio channel of quantitative easing (QE) transmission. We identify this channel using household-level and regional data from Germany. We show that QE induces households with larger initial bond holdings to rebalance more their portfolios toward housing and par...
Keywords: Asset Market Segmentation, Buy-to-let, Germany, Housing Returns, Household Portfolio Rebalancing, Quantitative Easing, Rental Yields.
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2022

We propose a household housing portfolio channel of quantitative easing (QE) transmission. QE induces households to rebalance portfolios from bonds to houses, lowering their expected future returns and thus stimulating consumption and output. We document this channel using both regional and househol...
Keywords: Asset Market Segmentation, Buy-to-let, Germany, Housing Returns, Household Portfolio Rebalancing, Qu
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