leverage of the financial sector is two and a half times that of the goods-producers in the BGG model. This causes a much more …

This paper explores the link between the leverage of the US financial sector, of households and of non …-financial businesses, and real activity. We document that leverage is negatively correlated with the future growth of real activity, and … positively linked to the conditional volatility of future real activity and of equity returns. The joint information in sectoral …

establishment-level data, we show that firms that tightened their debt capacity in the run-up (“high-leverage firms”) exhibit a … significantly larger decline in employment in response to household demand shocks than firms that freed up debt capacity (“low-leverage … among establishments of high-leverage firms. At the county level, we find that counties with a larger fraction of …

We present new stylized facts on bank and firm leverage for 2000-2009 using extensive internationally comparable micro … level data from several countries. The main result is that there was very little buildup in leverage for the average non … investment banks worldwide. We document the following patterns: a) there was an increase in leverage ratios of investment banks …

leverage. Those emerging economies that avoided leverage booms during the 2000s also were most likely to avoid the worst …

An iconic model with high leverage and overvalued collateral assets is used to illustrate the amplification mechanism …

related to volatility, (iv) is subject to 'flight to quality', and (v) comoves with the market, and it provides new testable …