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Why Bank Money Creation?
(2022)CEPR Discussion PapersWe provide a rationale for bank money creation in our monetary system by examining its merits over a system with banks as intermediaries of loanable funds. The latter system could result when CBDCs are introduced. In the loanable funds system, households limit banks’ leverage when providing deposits such that banks have enough “skin in the game” and monitor loans. When there is unobservable heterogeneity among banks with regard to ...Working Paper -
Enough Liquidity with Enough Capital-and Vice Versa?
(2023)CFS Working Paper SeriesWe study the interplay of capital and liquidity regulation in a general equilibrium setting by focusing on future funding risks. The model consists of a banking sector with long-term illiquid investment opportunities that need to be financed by short-term debt and by issuing equity. Reliance on refinancing long-term investment in the middle of the life-time is risky, since the next generation of potential short-term debt holders may not ...Working Paper -
Contagious Stablecoins?
(2023)CEPR Discussion PapersWe study competition between stablecoins pegged to a stable currency. Stablecoins are issued by coalescing investors and backed by long-term assets. They can either be redeemed with the issuer or traded in a secondary market. When an issuer limits redemption and sticks to an investment rule, its stablecoin is stable in an idiosyncratic sense—it is invulnerable to runs and always trades at the pegged price. Competition between issuers, ...Working Paper