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Scarce Collateral, the Term Premium, and Quantitative Easing

A model of money, credit, and banking is constructed in which the differential pledgeability of collateral and the scarcity of collateralizable wealth lead to a term premium — an upward-sloping nominal yield curve. Purchases of long-maturity government debt by the central bank are always a good idea, but for unconventional reasons. A floor system is preferred to a channel system, as a floor system permits welfare-improving asset purchases by the central bank.

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https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.2014.008

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2015.07.010