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How Should Financial Intermediation Services Be Taxed?
Lockwood, Ben - 2010
This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to final consumption, and the cost of...
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Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation : The Impact of Policy
Berka, Martin - 2013
This paper studies loan activity in a context where banks must follow Basel Accord-type rules and acquire financing from households. Loan activity typically decreases when entrepreneurs' investment returns decline, and we study which type of policy could revigorate an economy in a trough. We...
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Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and Their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations
Peersman, Gert - 2014
Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary … type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank … using a model of bank risk-taking and securitization …
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Self-Fulfilling Credit Cycles
Azariadis, Costas - 2015
In U.S. data 1981–2012, unsecured firm credit moves procyclically and tends to lead GDP, while secured firm credit is acyclical; similarly, shocks to unsecured firm credit explain a far larger fraction of output fluctuations than shocks to secured credit. In this paper we develop a tractable...
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Credibility for Sale
Dellas, Harris - 2013
We develop a sovereign debt model with official and private creditors where default risk depends on both the level and the composition of liabilities. Higher exposure to official lenders improves incentives to repay but carries extra costs, such as reduced ex-post flexibility. The model implies...
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Islamic Banking, Credit and Economic Growth : Some Empirical Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2016
This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets of seven emerging countries, the first without Islamic banks, and the second with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks. Unlike previous studies,...
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Do Better Capitalized Banks Lend Less? Long-Run Panel Evidence from Germany
Buch, Claudia M. - 2013
of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of … the German economy for the past 60 years. We find no evidence for a negative impact of bank capital on business loans …
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Equilibrium Unemployment With Credit and Labour Market Imperfections
Koskela, Erkki - 2007
We study the role of labour and credit market imperfections in the determination of equilibrium unemployment. In the credit market, loan contracts are negotiated between financiers and firms, both of which have bargaining power, while firms and organized labour bargain over the base wage. The...
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Unexpected Loan Losses and Bank Capital in an Estimated DSGE Model of the Euro Area
Hristov, Nikolay - 2016
conditions, credit default and bank capitalization for the transmission of macroeconomic shocks. We fit the model to euro area … empirical literature, i.e. the pro-cyclicality of bank profitability and the counter-cyclical response of firm default rates and …
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Foreign Currency Loans and Credit Risk : Evidence from U.S. Banks
Niepmann, Friederike - 2020
When firms borrow in foreign currency but collect revenues in local currency, exchange rate changes can affect their ability to repay their debt. Using loan-level data from U.S. banks' regulatory filings, this paper studies the effect of exchange rate changes on firms' loan payments. A 10...
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