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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974029003321

Autore

Bianchi Javier

Titolo

Macro-prudential Policy in a Fisherian Model of Financial Innovation / / Javier Bianchi, Emine Boz, Enrique Mendoza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

9781475542516

1475542518

9781475570724

1475570724

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (55 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

BozEmine

MendozaEnrique

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Financial institutions - Management - Econometric models

Equilibrium (Economics) - Econometric models

Asset prices

Asymmetric and Private Information

Banks

Business Fluctuations

Collateral

Credit

Current Account Adjustment

Cycles

Deflation

Depository Institutions

Externalities

Finance

Financial institutions

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Housing

Industries: Financial Services

Inflation

Land prices

Loans

Macroeconomics

Micro Finance Institutions

Monetary economics

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General



Money and Monetary Policy

Money

Mortgages

Nonagricultural and Nonresidential Real Estate Markets

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Price Level

Prices

Property & real estate

Public finance & taxation

Real Estate

Revenue administration

Short-term Capital Movements

Tax administration and procedure

Tax arrears management

Tax Evasion and Avoidance

Taxation

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 1.Introduction; 2 A Fisherian Model of Financial Innovation; 2.1 Decentralized Competitive Equilibrium; 2.2 Learning Environment; 2.3 Learning, Debt and Price Dynamics after Financial Innovation; 2.4 Recursive Anticipated Utility Competitive Equilibrium; 2.5 Conditionally Efficient Planners' Problems; 2.6 Pecuniary Externality and Decentralization of Planners' Allocations; 3 Quantitative Analysis; 3.1 Baseline Calibration; Tables; Table 1: Baseline Parameter Values; 3.2 Baseline Results; 3.3 Welfare Analysis; Table 2: Welfare Gains; 3.4 Sensitivity Analysis

Table 3: Summary of Priors4 Conclusion; Appendixes; Appendix: Recursive Optimization Problems; References; References; Figures; Figure 1: Dynamics in the Baseline Calibration; Figure 2: Period 40 Bond Holdings and Asset Prices; Figure 3: Period 41 Bond Holdings and Asset Prices; Figure 4: Crisis Episode; Figure 5: Taxes on Debt and Land Dividends; Figure 6: Decomposition of Taxes on Debt; Figure 7: Priors; Figure 8: Dynamics in Gradual Optimism Calibration; Figure 9: Period 40 Bond Holdings and Prices: Gradual Optimism; Figure 10: Taxes on Debt and Land Dividends: Gradual Optimism

Figure 11: Decomposition of Taxes on Debt: Gradual OptimismFigure 12: Dynamics in Asymmetric Priors Calibration; Figure 13: Taxes on Debt: Asymmetric Priors

Sommario/riassunto

The interaction between credit frictions, financial innovation, and a switch from optimistic to pessimistic beliefs played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis. This paper develops a quantitative general equilibrium framework in which this interaction drives the financial amplification mechanism to study the effects of macro-prudential policy. Financial innovation enhances the ability of agents to collateralize assets into debt, but the riskiness of this new regime can



only be learned over time. Beliefs about transition probabilities across states with high and low ability to borrow change as agents learn from observed realizations of financial conditions. At the same time, the collateral constraint introduces a pecuniary externality, because agents fail to internalize the effect of their borrowing decisions on asset prices. Quantitative analysis shows that the effectiveness of macro-prudential policy in this environment depends on the government's information set, the tightness of credit constraints and the pace at which optimism surges in the early stages of financial innovation. The policy is least effective when the government is as uninformed as private agents, credit constraints are tight, and optimism builds quickly.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968627303321

Autore

Maira Sunaina

Titolo

Boycott! : The Academy and Justice for Palestine / / Sunaina Maira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9780520967854

0520967852

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 pages)

Collana

American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present ; ; 4

Disciplina

371.1/04

Soggetti

Academic freedom - United States

Boycotts - United States - 21st century

Academic freedom - Palestine

Boycotts - Palestine - 21st century

Arab-Israeli conflict - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Overview -- Introduction -- 1. Boycott as Tactic. Here and There -- 2. The Academic Boycott Movement -- 3. Backlash. The Boycott and the Culture/Race Wars -- 4. Academic Abolitionism. Boycott as Decolonization -- Acknowledgments -- Notes



-- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? In this short essential book, Sunaina Maira addresses these key questions. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the United States as well as in Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement's implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization, and neoliberal capitalism.