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Coming to America: covered bonds?
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2012)
Ultimately, covered bonds and ABS are complements, not substitutes.
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When oil prices jump, is speculation to blame?
Juvenal, Luciana; Petrella, Ivan; Fawley, Brett W. (2012-04)
Whenever the price at the pump climbs week after week, people start pointing fingers at investment banks, hedge funds and other speculators. This article quantifies the role that speculation played in the rise of oil prices during the past decade.
The Regional Economist , Issue Apr

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Low inflation in a world of securitization
Wen, Yi; Fawley, Brett W. (2013)
Weak lending may still be the culprit behind low inflation, but monetary aggregates may no longer closely track credit conditions.
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Capital controls by any other name
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2011)
The embrace of ad hoc capital controls to address temporary market inefficiencies on a case-by-case basis, while pragmatic, perpetuates the view that each capital crisis is an isolated example of failed financial institutions.
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The great Chinese housing boom
Wen, Yi; Fawley, Brett W. (2013)
Significant store-of-value demand for housing suggests a bubble that could burst, especially when both the household income growth rate and the savings rate start to decline and capital controls in China start to relax.
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Commodity price gains: speculation vs. fundamentals
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2011-07)
Commodities of all sorts have risen in price over the past few years. Some say that the prices reflect a bubble, driven by low interest rates and excessive speculation. Others say the price gains can be fully explained by supply and demand.
The Regional Economist , Issue July , Pages 4-9

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Quantitative easing: lessons we've learned
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2012-07)
The Regional Economist , Issue Jul

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Japan reenters the foreign exchange market
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2010)
From 1999 to 2004 Japan unilaterally sold a combined, and unprecedented, 500 billion dollars of yen.
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Why health care matters and the current debt does not
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2011-10)
All of the attention given to raising the debt ceiling this past summer might lead some to believe that spending by the federal government only recently became unsustainable. Hardly. We've been on this path a long time.
The Regional Economist , Issue Oct , Pages 4-5

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Monetary policy and asset prices
Juvenal, Luciana; Fawley, Brett W. (2010)
The housing market crisis is the latest reminder that asset prices can and do run wild at rates capable of negative effects on real economic activity. Not surprisingly, this has reinvigorated debate over whether central banks should respond to asset price bubbles.
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