Funding needs create a natural conflict between monetary and fiscal policymakers. • Fiscal policymakers also tend to ignore the long-term inflationary effects of their actions. • Politicians often turn to borrowing (instead of taxes) as a way to finance some portion of their spending, but a country can issue only so much debt
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The boom in the past decade with its associated decrease in volatility may have happened because technology sparked a boom just as central banks became better at their jobs. • Policymakers realized that sustainable growth had gone up, so interest rates could be kept low without worrying about inflation, and central banks were redesigned
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Instability in any of those would pose an economy-wide economic risk that diversification could not mitigate. • Thus the job of the central bank is to improve general economic welfare by managing and reducing systematic risk. • It is probably impossible to achieve all five of these objectives simultaneously, and so tradeoffs must be made
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Minimum capital requirements complement these limitations on bank assets • Capital serves as a cushion against declines in the value of the bank’s assets, lowering the likelihood of the bank’s failure, and is a way to reduce the problem of moral hazard
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What matters during a bank run is not whether a bank is solvent but whether it is liquid • Here solvency means that the value of the bank’s assets exceeds its liabilities (positive net worth) • Liquidity refers to the sufficient reserves of the bank to meet withdrawal demands • False rumors that a bank is insolvent can lead to a run which ...
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The Role of Insurance Companies: • Insurance companies pool risk to generate predictable payouts • Adverse selection and moral hazard create problems in the insurance market that are worse than those in the stock and bond markets • Cancer Patients • Fire Insurance
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One of the most important aspects of international banking is the eurodollar market, in which dollar-denominated deposits in foreign banks are exchanged • The eurodollar market was created in response to restrictions on the movement of international capital imposed at the end of World War II with the creation of Bretton Woods system
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Banks do not like to meet their deposit outflows by contracting the asset side of the balance sheet because doing so shrinks the size of the bank • Banks can use liability management to obtain additional funds by • borrowing (from the central bank or from another bank) or • by attracting additional deposits (by issuing large CDs)
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Net interest income is another measure of profitability; • It is the difference between the interest the bank pays and what it receives • It can also be expressed as a percentage of total assets to yield (net interest margin). It is the bank’s interest rate spread • Well run banks have high net interest income and a high net interest margin...
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Adverse Selection in Financial Markets: • The same happens in the bond market • If a lender can not tell whether a borrower is a good or a bad credit risk, the demand for a risk premium will be based on the average risk • Borrowers having good credit risk will not pay higher risk premiums and would withdraw from the market • Only bad credit...
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