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Browsing RSCAS Working Papers by Author "CARLETTI, Elena"
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Title:Money, Financial Stability and Efficiency
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; GALE, DouglasDate:2011-01-16Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts. However, in
practice contracts are nominal and this is what is assumed here. We consider a standard
banking model with aggregate return risk, aggregate ...
Title:What Should Central Banks do about Real Estate Prices?
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, ElenaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:Many central banks use inflation targeting as the basis for their monetary policy. The
underlying notion of this approach is that there are no long term benefits in terms of reduced
unemployment from having inflation. ...
Title:Money, Financial Stability and Efficiency
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; GALE, DouglasDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts. However, in practice contracts are nominal and this is what is assumed here. We consider a standard banking model with aggregate return risk, aggregate ...
Title:Asset Commonality, Debt Maturity and Systemic Risk
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; BABUS, Ana; CARLETTI, ElenaDate:2010-11-20Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:We develop a model where financial institutions swap projects in order to diversify their individual risk. This can lead to two dfferent asset structures. In a clustered structure groups of financial institutions hold ...
Title:The African Financial Development Gap
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; CULL, Robert; QIAN, Jun 'QJ'; SENBET, LemmaDate:2010-10-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:Economic growth in Africa has long been disappointing. We document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We ...
Title:Financial Connections and Systemic Risk
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; BABUS, Ana; CARLETTI, ElenaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:An important source of systemic risk is overlapping portfolio exposures among financial institutions. We develop a model where institutions form connections through swaps of projects in order to diversify their individual ...
Title:Financial Connections and Systemic Risk
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; BABUS, Ana; CARLETTI, ElenaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a model where institutions form connections through swaps of projects
in order to diversify their individual risk. These connections lead to two different network
structures. In a clustered network groups of ...
Title:The African Financial Development Gap
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; CULL, Robert; QIAN, Jun 'QJ'; SENBET, LemmaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Economic growth in Africa has long been disappointing. We document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We ...
Title:Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; MARQUEZ, RobertDate:2009-09-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Wharton Financial Institutions CenterAbstract:In countries such as Germany, the legal system ensures that firms are stakeholder oriented. In others, like Japan, social norms achieve a similar effect. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented ...
Title:Credit Market Competition and Capital Regulation
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; MARQUEZ, RobertDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:It is commonly believed that equity finance for banks is more costly than deposits. This suggests that banks should economize on the use of equity and regulatory constraints on capital should be binding. Empirical evidence ...
Title:Interbank Market Liquidity and Central Bank Intervention
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; GALE, DouglasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a simple model of the interbank market where banks trade a long term, safe asset. We show that when there is a lack of opportunities for banks to hedge aggregate and idiosyncratic liquidity shocks, the interbank ...
Title:Stakeholder Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Firm Value
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; MARQUEZ, RobertDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In countries such as Germany, the legal system is such that firms are necessarily stakeholder oriented. In others like Japan social convention achieves a similar effect. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of ...