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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2021

We study the impact of China’s 2013 implementation of Basel III on bank risk-taking and its responses to monetary policy shocks using confidential loan-level data from a large Chinese bank. Guided by theory, we use a difference-in-difference identification, exploiting cross-sectional differences i...
Keywords: Bank risk taking, bank capital regulations, portfolio choices, Macroprudential Policy, monetary policy, capital reallocation, China
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2021

This paper provides an assessment of India’s inflation-targeting regime. It shows that the Reserve Bank of India is best characterized as a flexible inflation targeter: contrary to criticism, it does not neglect changes in the output gap when setting policy rates. The paper does not find that the ...
Keywords: Inflation targeting, monetary policy, India
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2021

Further progress in digital money, electronically stored monetary value, may enable pricing in units of any currency in any country. This paper studies monetary policy in such a world, using a two- country open economy model with nominal rigidities. The findings are three-fold. First, domestic monet...
Keywords: Digital money, monetary policy, dollarization
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Real Estate and Urban Economics

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May 2021

Lenders' access to soft information on appraisal inflation could lead to adverse selection in private mortgage securitization. Combining a nationwide mortgage data with a real estate transaction data and using a difference-in-differences empirical design, we document that securitized refinance loans...
Keywords: Appraisal Inflation, adverse selection, Mortgage Securitization
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Real Estate and Urban Economics

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May 2021

We propose a new housing portfolio channel of quantitative easing (QE) transmission. QE induces regional households to rebalance portfolios from bonds to houses, lowering bond and housing expected future returns, possibly stimulating consumption and output. We study this channel in a panel of all Ge...
Keywords: unconventional monetary policy, EONIA, Quantitative Easing, regional business cycles, Germany, Real estate
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