Azariadis, Costas; Kaas, Leo - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2012
This paper argues that self-fulfilling beliefs in credit conditions can generate endoge- nously persistent business … productivity shocks. Capital from less productive firms is lent to more productive ones in the form of credit secured by collateral … and also as unsecured credit based on reputation. A dynamic complemen- tarity between current and future credit …