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unsecured lending and substantial increases in haircuts on posted collateral. This paper seeks to understand the implications of …
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We study a production economy with multiple sectors financed by issuing securities to agents who face capital constraints. Binding capital constraints propagate business cycles, and a reduction of the interest rate can increase the required return of high-haircut assets since it can increase the...
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When firms are able to pledge their assets as collateral, investment and borrowing become endogenous: pledgeable assets … between capital spending and cash flows is non-monotonic in the firm's asset tangibility. Our theory allows us to use a …
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classical option theory. A substantial literature has emerged examining the problem, focusing on the characteristics of the … behavior, using both householder characteristics and collateral (house) value. Second, it empirically recognizes important … interactions between the status of the prepayment option and the influence of income and collateral constraints upon prepayment …
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nominal interest rate), in a general-equilibrium model of asset pricing and risk sharing with endogenous collateral … constraints of the kind proposed by Geanakoplos (1997). The existence of collateral constraints allows our model to capture the …-bank purchases raise the price of the asset, owing to binding collateral constraints, the effects need not be the ones commonly …
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This paper examines the extent to which permanent terms-of-trade shocks have an asymmetric effect on private savings. The first part uses a simple three-period model to show that, if households expect to face binding borrowing constraints in bad states of nature, savings rates will respond...
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particular, we find that the recovery after a negative aggregate shock is more sluggish when the economy is more leveraged …
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Recent macroeconomic experience has drawn attention to the importance of interdependence among countries through financial markets and institutions, independently of traditional trade linkages. This paper develops a model of the international transmission of shocks due to interdependent...
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the asset shock and the system-wide distribution of leverage. This distribution of leverage is, however, itself endogenous …
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How do financial frictions affect the response of an economy to aggregate shocks? In this paper, we address this question, focusing on liquidity constraints and uninsurable idiosyncratic risk. We consider a search model where agents use liquid assets to smooth individual income shocks. We show...
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