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We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment and Tobin’s q. A firm is financed partly by insiders, who control its assets, and partly by outside investors. When insiders’ wealth is scarce, they earn a rate of...
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of agents in exchanging money for goods, but on the arrangements for clearing and settlement of credit instruments. The …A segmented markets model is constructed in which transactions are conducted using credit and currency. Goods market … novelty of the paper is to show how the diffusion of a money injection by the central bank depends not only on the interaction …
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, agents have excess demand for or supply of money balances. Banks arise to reallocate excess cash by taking deposits from …
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and credit can improve welfare relative to the use of credit alone. This occurs because money allows for transactions to … money and credit. Our methodology for investigating identity theft is a general one, whose application is not necessarily … this paper we provide a model of “identity†and its use in credit transactions. In the environments we construct …
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This paper compares wealth portfolios across countries. The household sector in the US and Canada owns much more financial wealth, and much less housing wealth, than the household sector in most of Europe. We address this fact using a calibrated two sector growth model with endogenous financial...
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We propose a theory where capital market imperfections are at the origin of cross-country TFP differences. In our theory entrepreneurs have private information about the multifactor productivity of their technology. We study how the contracting environment, as described by the ability to enforce...
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of inflation whose transmission mechanism does not rely on base money seigniorage. It is found that a large contribution …
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I construct a heterogeneous agents economy that mimics the time-series behavior of the US earnings distribution from 1963 to 2003. Agents face aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks and accumulate real and financial assets. I estimate the shocks driving the model using data on income inequality, on...
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This paper contributes to the literature comparing the relative performance of financial intermediaries and markets by studying an environment in which a trade-off between risk sharing and growth arises endogenously. Financial intermediaries provide insurance to households against a liquidity...
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