{"title":"Financial Stability with Fire Sale Externalities","authors":"RYUICHIRO IZUMI, YANG LI","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13271","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Do policies mitigating fire sale externalities improve financial stability? We study this question in a model of financial intermediation where banks are subject to self-fulfilling bank runs and may sell long-term assets subject to cash-in-the-market pricing. Without regulations, banks hold more long-term assets than socially optimal, causing inefficiently large fire sales in crises. Policymakers may regulate to mitigate this externality, but lack commitment. The optimal policy depends on how regulation affects the probability of self-fulfilling runs, and we offer a robust control theory of this relationship. Ignoring this effect could inadvertently increase fragility and lower welfare. Internalizing it robustly increases welfare.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1525-1548"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonmonetary News in Fed Announcements: Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market","authors":"MICHAEL SMOLYANSKY, GUSTAVO SUAREZ","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13253","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy, do the prices of riskier assets fall relative to safer assets? Or, do investors interpret policy tightening as a signal that economic fundamentals are stronger than they previously believed, thus leading riskier assets to outperform? We present evidence that the latter of these two forces empirically dominates within the U.S. corporate bond market. Following an unanticipated monetary policy tightening, riskier corporate bonds outperform safer corporate bonds, demonstrating the importance of an informational, or nonmonetary, component within monetary policy announcements.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1359-1383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiscal Distress and Banking Performance: The Role of Macroprudential Regulation","authors":"HIONA BALFOUSSIA, HARRIS DELLAS, DIMITRIS PAPAGEORGIOU","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13247","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fiscal fragility undermines a government's ability to honor its bank deposit insurance pledge and induces a positive correlation between sovereign default risk and financial (bank) default risk. We show that this positive relation is reversed if bank capital requirements in fiscally weak countries are allowed to adjust optimally. The resulting higher requirements buttress the banking system and support higher output and welfare relative to the case where macroprudential policy does not vary with the degree of fiscal stress. Fiscal tenuousness also exacerbates the effects of other risk shocks. Nonetheless, the economy's response can be mitigated if macroprudential policy is adjusted optimally.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1549-1569"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monetary and Macroprudential Policy and Welfare in an Estimated Four-Agent New Keynesian Model","authors":"GEORGE J. BRATSIOTIS, KASUN D. PATHIRAGE","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13095","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmcb.13095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine the <i>social</i> and <i>agent-specific</i> welfare effects of monetary and macroprudential policy in a four-agent estimated macro-economic model comprising “<i>banked simple households</i>,” “<i>underbanked simple households</i>,” “<i>firm owners</i>,” and “<i>bank owners</i>.” Optimal capital requirement and loan loss provisions ratios improve all agent-specific and social welfare, but imply smaller gains for <i>simple households</i> and <i>firm owners</i> that rely on credit. Countercyclical capital buffers support <i>firm owners</i> and <i>bank owners</i> with smaller gains for the two simple households, while countercyclical loan loss provisions improve social welfare only for specific shocks. Coordination between monetary and macroprudential policies yields higher social welfare than no coordination.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1411-1452"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmcb.13095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135820547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Market Regulation, Cycles, and Growth Dynamics in a Monetary Union","authors":"MIRKO ABBRITTI, SEBASTIAN WEBER","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13212","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jmcb.13212","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We build a two-country currency union dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with endogenous growth to assess the role of product market regulation (PMR) and labor market regulation (LMR) for growth and the adjustment to shocks. We show that with endogenous growth, there is no reason to expect real income convergence. Large shocks can lead to permanent changes of output and real exchange rates. Differences are exacerbated by different PMR and LMR. Less regulated economies have higher trend growth and recover faster from negative shocks. Results are consistent with higher inflation, lower employment, and disappointing total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates experienced in more regulated euro area members.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1453-1493"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CHARLES M. KAHN, DAVID MARSHALL, ROBERT L. MCDONALD
{"title":"Liquidity Crises and the Market-Maker of Last Resort","authors":"CHARLES M. KAHN, DAVID MARSHALL, ROBERT L. MCDONALD","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13273","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study market illiquidity in an economy subject to nonfundamental shocks. Asset trading occurs via decentralized bargaining. The model has multiple rational expectations equilibria; we associate certain Pareto-inferior equilibria with liquidity crises. The government can improve welfare by acting as a “market-maker of last resort” (MMLR), purchasing assets at above-market prices. Several policies employed by the United States during the financial crisis are examples of MMLR. We consider “aggressive” and “conservative” MMLR policies. The aggressive policy supports the unique Pareto-optimal equilibrium. The conservative policy, which embeds a “no-bailout constraint,” only supports an inefficient equilibrium.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1327-1357"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmcb.13273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information Transparency of Firm Financing","authors":"ANTOINE L. NOËL, HONGFEI SUN","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13259","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose a theory on information transparency of optimal financial contracts. Our model nests adverse selection and agency cost. There exists a unique perfect Bayesian equilibrium with novel features: First, three types of optimal contracts can arise endogenously, that is, equity, transparent debt, and opaque debt. The former two require firms to take on a costly verification technology while opaque debt does not. Second, the unique equilibrium is either pooling on opaque debt, or mixing with transparent and opaque financing. Third, firms with sufficiently high quality and intermediate levels of internal funds find it optimal to use a transparent contract.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1299-1326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PETER BEDNAREK, VALERIYA DINGER, ALISON SCHULTZ, NATALJA VON WESTERNHAGEN
{"title":"Banks of a Feather: The Informational Advantage of Being Alike","authors":"PETER BEDNAREK, VALERIYA DINGER, ALISON SCHULTZ, NATALJA VON WESTERNHAGEN","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13252","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Banks lend more to banks that are similar to them. Using data from the German credit register and proprietary supervisory data on the quality of banks' loan portfolio, we show that a similar portfolio of the lending and borrowing bank helps to overcome information asymmetries in interbank markets. While interbank lenders generally do not adjust their lending to information on the counterparty's portfolio quality, banks with an exposure to similar industries and regions strongly react to this private information. Lending between similar banks is particularly important for borrowers with opaque loan portfolios, which do not obtain credit from dissimilar peers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1257-1297"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmcb.13252","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monetary Policy and the Drifting Natural Rate of Interest","authors":"SANDRA DAUDIGNON, ORESTE TRISTANI","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13274","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Empirical analyses find that the long-run natural rate is subject to permanent shocks. How should monetary policy react to such shocks? Because of the zero lower bound (ZLB) on nominal interest rates, the mere possibility of future movements toward zero of the long-run natural rate imparts a downward bias on inflation expectations. To offset this bias, a central bank optimizing under commitment should not only rely on forward guidance at the ZLB, as recommended by the existing literature, but also adopt an expansionary bias away from the ZLB.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1385-1410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tariffs and Foreign Direct Investment in a Dynamic North–South Model","authors":"TATSURO IWAISAKO, HITOSHI TANAKA","doi":"10.1111/jmcb.13221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13221","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines how import tariffs by a developed country (the North) and a developing country (the South) affect innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a quality ladder model. We show that a Northern import tariff raises the relative wage of Northern labor, but impedes innovation and FDI. This may worsen Northern welfare. By contrast, a Southern import tariff raises the relative wage of Southern labor and promotes innovation and FDI. This can improve Southern welfare. These imply that the South has a stronger incentive than the North to impose an import tariff, which is consistent with actual observation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48328,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Money Credit and Banking","volume":"58 5","pages":"1495-1524"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmcb.13221","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}