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. The model suggests that simultaneous boom-bust cycles in house prices, output, investment, consumption and hours worked … nominal policy interest rate and the CPI inflation rate decline during housing booms and rise as house prices fall. These … demonstrate that stronger policy responses to inflation amplify housing-market boom-bust cycles. Also, higher loan-to-value ratios …
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We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because … indexed to the nominal price and, as a result, their investment is more sensitive to nominal price shocks. We also find that … investment and output respond to a lesser degree. -- Economic models ; Monetary policy framework ; Financial markets …
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Using Bayesian methods, we estimate a small open economy model in which consumers face limits to credit determined by the value of their housing stock. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the role of collateralized household debt in the Canadian business cycle. Our findings show that the...
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This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and economic cycles and examines its interaction with monetary policy. The framework used is a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with banks and bank capital, in which...
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A view advanced in the aftermath of the late-2000s financial crisis is that lower than optimal interest rates lead to excessive risk taking by financial intermediaries. We evaluate this view in a quantitative dynamic model in which interest rate policy affects risk taking by changing the amount...
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Recent events in financial markets have underlined the importance of analyzing the link between the financial health of banks and real economic activity. This paper contributes to this analysis by constructing a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the balance sheet of banks affects the...
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are already high. By contrast, upward pressures on output (and perhaps also on inflation) should lead to decreases in …, responding to future inflation, rather than the current rate, does not generate significant welfare improvements. While some of … should lower rates when output or inflation is pushing upward is more specific to limited-participation models. This …
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aggregate investment, and are important determinants of the propagation of shocks. The authors find that the effects of monetary …
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rule that stabilizes output and inflation in an environment where endogenous boom-bust cycles in house prices can occur … borrowers are occasionally over-optimistic, the central bank should be less responsive to inflation, more responsive to output …-bust cycles in house prices, but prolongs inflation target horizons due to weak policy reactions to inflation fluctuations after …
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We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because … indexed to the nominal price and, as a result, their investment is more sensitive to nominal price shocks. We also find that … investment and output respond to a lesser degree. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999118