The global financial crisis that started in 2007 exposed the failure of governments and legislative bodies to regulate the banking industry adequately at a national and global level. Post-crisis reforms and structural changes have ensued: the switch from the G7 to the G20 for example and an...

Shocks in the financial sector caused the great recession of 2008 and pulled down the real economy. To implement financial dynamics in a stylized DSGE-framework we use behavioral elements in expectations to produce waves of bull and bear cycles in the financial intermediation process, that have...