{"title":"Strategic Default and Optimal Audit Resources with Costly State Verification","authors":"Andreas Krause","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3850123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3850123","url":null,"abstract":"I develop a model in which the ability to repay a loan is private information that can only be verified by the bank at some costs, which can be recovered from the borrower if it has reported untruthfully. The bank will optimize the resources it spends on this auditing of borrowers and the resulting equilibrium is then characterized. It is shown that in equilibrium, a significant fraction of companies default strategically, but most are captured via auditing. The failure rates of banks are also small. Finally extensions are discussed to include limited liability to banks and the partial recovery of auditing costs as well as punitive costs to borrowers.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128647426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exchange Rate Shocks in Multicurrency Interbank Markets","authors":"P. Siklos, Martin Stefan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3842658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3842658","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We simulate the impact on the nonbank liabilities of banks in a multiplex interbank environment arising from changes in currency exposure. Currency shocks as a source of financial contagion in the banking sector have not, so far, been considered. Our model considers two sources of contagion: shocks to nonbank assets and exchange rate shocks. Interbank loans can mature at different times. We demonstrate that a dominant currency can be a significant source of financial contagion. We also find evidence of asymmetries in losses stemming from large currency depreciations versus appreciations. A variety of scenarios are considered allowing for differences in the sparsity of the banking network, the relative size and number of banks, changes in nonbank assets and equity, the possibility of bank breakups, and the dominance of a particular currency. Policy implications are also drawn.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"657 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123977472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Capital Asset Pricing Model as Modern Austrian Business Cycle Theory","authors":"Robert E. Krainer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3839747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3839747","url":null,"abstract":"According to Austrian macroeconomic theory, capital accumulation today generates supply tomorrow. Will that supply match tomorrows demand? In this paper we study this question in a multi-good and risky environment with an efficient financial system. Towards this end we develop a model based on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Rational Expectations, and Linear Homogeneous Production Functions. Within this framework we show how the financial system in the form of CAPM allocates resources across the different sectors in the economy so as to maximize the ratio of expected returns to a measure of risk like the standard deviation of returns for some initial time period t=0. In t=1 a Linear Homogeneous Production Function subject to a random productivity shock determines actual output and the structure of production. The link between t=0 and t=1 is Rational Expectations, the assumption that the subjective probability distribution in t=0 on which real investment decision are made is equivalent to the objective distribution generating the actual output/income in t=1. If total output is more (or less) than expected in t=0, we have a cyclical expansion (or recession) the magnitude of which depends on the spread of the subjective probably distribution in t=0. With this model we discuss: 1) monetary policy under a full reserve banking system with Central bank digital accounts for all; 2) an all-inclusive transaction tax to substitute for the U.S. present tax system; 3) the trade-off between economic growth and the cyclical volatility of the economy; and 4) the advantages and disadvantages of trade deficits.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"250 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123029673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bank Competition and Local Labor Markets","authors":"Roberta F. Mann","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3810774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3810774","url":null,"abstract":"While the real effects of bank competition is a classic topic in the finance literature, there has been relatively little research studying the effect it might have on local labor markets. In this paper, I utilize county level data and an exogenous shock to competition supplied by DOJ antitrust policies to look at the relationship between bank competition and local labor markets. Following this negative shock to competition, unemployment increases and wages decrease, but there is no aggregate employment effect. Industries that depend more on bank funding see an increase in employment following a negative shock to competition in the short run, but see a decrease in employment in the longer term. This is due to local banks taking a lower return on their loan portfolio to local businesses in the short run, while raising their loan rates in the long term. Once the type of industries present inside a county is taken into account, an employment effect can be documented in the aggregate. Overall, the evidence suggest that competition has a negative effect on employment outcomes, although there may be positive effects in the short run.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132313112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big Banks, Household Credit Access, and Intergenerational Economic Mobility","authors":"Erik J. Mayer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3816308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3816308","url":null,"abstract":"Consolidation in the United States banking industry has led to larger banks. I find that low income households face reduced access to credit when local banks are large. This result appears to stem from large banks’ comparative disadvantage using soft information, which is particularly important for lending to low income households. In contrast, the size of local banks has little or no effect on high income households. Consistent with low income parents’ credit constraints limiting investment in their children’s human capital, areas with larger banks exhibit a greater sensitivity of educational attainment to parental income, and less intergenerational economic mobility.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132377423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wealth of Our Commonwealth: Money and Capital in the Productive Republic","authors":"R. Hockett","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3808790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3808790","url":null,"abstract":"There is a share of the investment capital available in any society that is generated by the public. In contemporary societies with well-developed payments systems and effective public governance, this share tends to grow large in comparison to that originated by non-public sources. For the latter is intermediated and thus must be pre-accumulated, while the former is generated and is the source of what is accumulated. \u0000 \u0000In spite of these truths, the US outsources management of its public capital stock to private sector financial institutions. This is a practice which a host of under-appreciated collective action predicaments endemic to decentralized market exchange, most of them recursive and hence iteratively self-worsening without limit, ensures will result in misallocation and, therefore, poor modulation of credit aggregates as well. What is needed to draw public capital out of bubble-inflation and back into productive investment is to bring it back under public management, a project for which the present exposition provides a full architecture. \u0000 \u0000This architecture is modeled as a stylized public balance sheet, taking the US Treasury and Federal Reserve System as consolidated case study. Public liabilities take the form of Democratic Digital Dollars issued through interest-bearing digital Business and Citizen Wallets. Public assets take the form of public credit extended by Treasury’s Federal Financing Bank (‘FFB’) and a newly ‘Spread Fed’ only for productive, not speculative, projects. \u0000 \u0000A National Reconstruction & Development Council (‘NRDC’) and Price Stabilization Fund (‘The People’s Portfolio’) complete the picture, respectively affording democratic guidance as to what counts socially as ‘productive’ and collaring volatility among Systemically Important Prices and Indices (‘SIPIs’). \u0000 \u0000Our public capital stock is a public resource in need of public management, which must be managed productively by and for the community.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133550915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liquidity Management and Asset Sales by Bond Funds in the Face of Investor Redemptions in March 2020","authors":"A. Schrimpf, Ilhyock Shim, H. Shin","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3799868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3799868","url":null,"abstract":"Investor redemptions are one factor behind asset sales by open-ended mutual funds, but an important additional factor is the selling due to the funds' liquidity management. \u0000 \u0000Funds holding illiquid assets reacted to redemptions in March 2020 by adding to their cash buffers even after meeting investor redemptions. For such funds, asset sales exceeded investor redemptions. \u0000 \u0000Increases in end-of-period cash holdings were less pronounced for funds that started the stress period with larger buffers, suggesting that such funds were less prone to selling at the height of the stress.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121773747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disbursement Delays Impact on Uzbekistan Growth in Asian Development Bank (ADB) Loan Projects","authors":"M. Ingratubun","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3896239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3896239","url":null,"abstract":"Compared with commercial banks that take one day, ADB loans take over 5-year before they are fully disbursed after the borrower signed the loan agreements, because of conditionalities. During which, the funds stay in the banks and gain compounded interest disfavoring Uzbekistan and affects its economic growth. These gains and their impacts have been mostly overlooked in development aid studies. We reviewed the financial costs of delays during project implementation in Uzbekistan and their impacts on GDP growth involving 67 loan projects, from 1996 to 2019 totaled over $6.7 billion. We applied a non-econometric and quantitative attribution methodology, adopting project and portfolio management principles combined with stochastic simulations. The results show that even 'if disbursed 100% in year-1', for each 1%-GDP of ADB loans, it reduces growth by 1.24%. It worsens growth as ADB loans increase and delays prolong. It costs a minimum of 1.2%-GDP for 5-year disbursement delays. Uzbekistan suffers a capital loss of $0.6 - $11 per $1 loan or equivalent to 0.91-8.6%-GDP per year because of disbursement delays under today's prevalent banking practices. Endogenizing these losses, ADB loans have severe negative impacts as growth suffers about 200% volatility as a result of disbursement delays. Fixing this is simple but requires a fundamental change.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131409819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keynes’s Theories of the Business Cycle: Evolution and Contemporary Relevance","authors":"P. Bortz","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3802035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3802035","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper traces the evolution of John Maynard Keynes’s theory of the business cycle from his early writings in 1913 to his policy prescriptions for the control of fluctuations in the early 1940s. The paper identifies six different ‘theories’ of business fluctuations. With different theoretical frameworks in a 30-year span, the driver of fluctuations, namely cyclical changes in expectations about future returns, remained substantially the same. The banking system also played a pivotal role throughout the different versions, by financing and influencing the behaviour of return expectations. There are four major changes in the evolution of Keynes’s business cycle theories: (i) the saving–investment framework to understand changes in economic fluctuations; (ii) the capabilities of the banking system to moderate the business cycle; (iii) the effectiveness of monetary policy to fine tune the business cycle through the control of the short-term interest rate or credit conditions; and (iv) the role of a comprehensive fiscal policy and investment policy to attenuate fluctuations. Finally, we draw some conclusions about the present relevance of the policy mix Keynes promoted for ensuring macroeconomic stability.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128084400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Impeding Mobile Money Expansion in Zambia","authors":"Natalie Chipa, B. Mwanza","doi":"10.31033/IJEMR.11.1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31033/IJEMR.11.1.24","url":null,"abstract":"The majority of the world population is not covered by the mainstream financial sector. As such, mobile money services are seen as a cost effective and efficient way of increasing financial inclusion. However, there remains some factors that impede the development of mobile money services. Therefore, this study sought to analyse these factors with a view to identifying strategies that can be used to accelerate the development of mobile money services.","PeriodicalId":275096,"journal":{"name":"Monetary Economics: Financial System & Institutions eJournal","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116733584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}