Essays on Aggregate Dynamics

Essays on Aggregate Dynamics
Author: Hiroshi Ochiai
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Release: 2012
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In the second chapter, we consider a mechanism of unstable fluctuations of aggregate investments by means of a global game approach. For this purpose, we extended a static global game to a dynamic one and paid attention to the effect of past aggregate investments on current profitability. Once this effect of aggregate investments between periods is taken into account, we can show that firms' equilibrium strategies of investments become highly volatile over time. Moreover, long persistence of high or low economic activity can be explained by this model as well. The third chapter examines the effect of firms' funding liquidity on macroeconomic dynamics and the role of liquidity markets. Here, we regard liquidity as firms' accumulated net worth and introduce heterogeneity between firms with regard to their productivities and accumulation of their net worth. From our analysis, we show that under existence of externality between probabilities of liquidity shocks 1) the economy without liquidity markets is highly volatile. 2) Liquidity markets insulate the economy from liquidity shocks. 3) During an unstable economic environment, the economic activity can sharply drop in the existence of liquidity markets. The fourth chapter aims at showing risk shifting behaviour of financial intermediaries in the context of an economic growth model to analyze financial crises. In the low capitalized economy in which a rate of return on safe assets is high and households' assets are scarce, investing in corporate sectors is more profitable than that of risky assets because the option value from investing in risky assets is low. However, as the economy grows, the rate of return on safe assets is decreasing whereas individual assets are increasing. In this situation, the option values of risky assets are increasing, which gives banks incentive to invest in risky assets leading some of the banks to be insolvent.

Essays on Liquidity in Macroeconomics

Essays on Liquidity in Macroeconomics
Author: Guido Lorenzoni
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Total Pages: 146
Release: 2001
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This thesis includes four essays on the macroeconomic effects of financial market imperfections. The first essay studies the incentives for banks that participate in an interbank market to keep a sufficient level of reserves. It presents a model where, in presence of imperfect insurance against bank-specific shocks, banks keep an inefficiently low ratio of reserves to deposits. A consequence of this is that the interest rate on the money market will fluctuate too much from a second-best perspective. It discusses the potential benefits and risks associated to central bank intervention, and highlights the complementarity between regulatory reserve requirements and stabilization of the interest rate. The second essay (joint with C. Hellwig) studies the ability of banks to issue liquid liabilities while holding only a fraction of their activities in liquid assets. We study the possibility of self-sustaining equilibria in which banks are prevented from abusing their issuing privilege by the threat of losing it in case of default. The third essay is a contribution to the empirics of precautionary savings and shows evidence of a decreasing relationship between household wealth and the variability of consumption expenditure. The evidence is consistent with the presence of a precautionary motive for wealth accumulation. The fourth essay (joint with F. Broner) shows that the time series of the spreads on emerging market bonds appears consistent with the view that international investors supplying funds to these countries are liquidity constrained at times of large price drops.

Essays in Monetary Economics (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)

Essays in Monetary Economics (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)
Author: Harry G. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134623631

Reprinting the second edition (which included a new introduction explaining developments which had emerged since first publication) this book discusses explorations in the fundamental theory of a monetary economy, a theoretical critique of the ‘Phillips Curve’ approach to the theory of inflation and the theory of the term structure of interest rates in terms of the theory of forward markets pioneered by David Meiselman.

The Federal Reserve System Purposes and Functions

The Federal Reserve System Purposes and Functions
Author: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Banks and Banking
ISBN: 9780894991967

Provides an in-depth overview of the Federal Reserve System, including information about monetary policy and the economy, the Federal Reserve in the international sphere, supervision and regulation, consumer and community affairs and services offered by Reserve Banks. Contains several appendixes, including a brief explanation of Federal Reserve regulations, a glossary of terms, and a list of additional publications.

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Author: John Maynard Keynes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319703447

This book was originally published by Macmillan in 1936. It was voted the top Academic Book that Shaped Modern Britain by Academic Book Week (UK) in 2017, and in 2011 was placed on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Reissued with a fresh Introduction by the Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman and a new Afterword by Keynes’ biographer Robert Skidelsky, this important work is made available to a new generation. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money transformed economics and changed the face of modern macroeconomics. Keynes’ argument is based on the idea that the level of employment is not determined by the price of labour, but by the spending of money. It gave way to an entirely new approach where employment, inflation and the market economy are concerned. Highly provocative at its time of publication, this book and Keynes’ theories continue to remain the subject of much support and praise, criticism and debate. Economists at any stage in their career will enjoy revisiting this treatise and observing the relevance of Keynes’ work in today’s contemporary climate.