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Funding Externalities, Asset Prices And Investors' "Search For Yield"

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  • Prasanna Gai
  • Kamakshya Trivedi

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This note presents a simple model that nests the “excess liquidity” and “savings glut” hypotheses of the debate on the recent asset price boom. It clarifies the notion of investors’ ‘search for yield’ and shows how financial frictions influence asset price dynamics.

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  • Prasanna Gai & Kamakshya Trivedi, 2008. "Funding Externalities, Asset Prices And Investors' "Search For Yield"," CAMA Working Papers 2008-12, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
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    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies

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