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The policy response to financial crises: making the macroprudential approach operational

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

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President's message : The (limited) role of credit ratings in the financial crisis

Econ Focus , Volume 13 , Issue Spr , Pages 1

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General discussion: the surprising origin and nature of financial crises: a macroeconomic policy proposal

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

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A framework for more effective stress testing

Proceedings

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Policy coordination and financial intermediaries

Summary of proceedings from the 1986 Fall Academic Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Economic Review , Issue Win , Pages 31-45

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The adverse selection approach to financial intermediation: some characteristics of the equilibrium financial structure

This paper examines an adverse selection economy in which efficient resource allocation is supported by intermediary contracts (coalitions). Agents differ along an ex ante publicly observable dimension, so that the equilibrium arrangement yields a diverse set of financial arrangements among borrowers, lenders and intermediaries. Loans made by intermediaries would appear to be mispriced relative to a naive benchmark that ignores the (unobservable) adverse selection aspects of the environment. The model also yields an equilibrium mix of intermediated and direct finance which is broadly ...
Working Paper , Paper 95-05

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On the importance of the plumber : the intersection of theory and practice in policymaking for federal financial institutions

The federal government's role as lender and insurer is very important, with over $1.4 trillion of loans and guarantees and at least $7 trillion of insured risk. Tens of millions of Americans benefit from housing loans, student loans, flood insurance, etc. Yet the federal financial institutions established to run these activities are often created almost as an afterthought, with little focus on their structure. This paper emphasizes the crucial importance of ending this neglect and recognizing how proper structure can help avoid major failures, such as the current problems at the Pension ...
Review , Volume 88 , Issue Jul , Pages 259-272

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Macroeconomics with hetereogeneity : a practical guide

This article reviews macroeconomic models with heterogeneous households. A key question for the relevance of these models concerns the degree to which markets are complete. This is because the existence of complete markets imposes restrictions on (i) how much heterogeneity matters for aggregate phenomena and (ii) the types of cross-sectional distributions that can be obtained. The degree of market incompleteness, in turn, depends on two factors: (i) the richness of insurance opportunities provided by the economic environment and (ii) the nature and magnitude of idiosyncratic risks to be ...
Economic Quarterly , Volume 97 , Issue 3Q , Pages 255-326

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Group lending and financial intermediation: an example

Economic Quarterly , Issue Fall , Pages 23-48

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