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This paper develops a DSGE model where banks use short-term deposits to provide firms with long-term credit. The demand for long-term credit arises because firms borrow in order to finance their capital stock which they only adjust at infrequent intervals. Within an RBC framework, we show that...
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This paper argues that counter-cyclical liquidity hoarding by financial intermediaries may strongly amplify business cycles. It develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which banks operate subject to agency problems and funding liquidity risk in their inter- mediation activity....
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This paper analyses the endogeneity of euro area total factor productivity and its role in business cycle amplification … by estimating a medium-scale DSGE model with endogenous productivity mechanism on euro area data. In this framework …, total factor productivity evolves endogenously as a consequence of costly investment in R&D and adoption of new technologies …
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news about future productivity. By contrast, the baseline RBC model produces neither persistent growth rates nor business …
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This paper aims at providing a detailed analysis of the leading indicator properties of corporate bond spreads for real economic activity in the euro area. In- and out-of-sample predictive content of corporate bond spreads are examined along three dimensions: the bonds' quality, their term to...
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the response of the external finance premium and the overall economy to monetary policy and productivity shocks. It allows …
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We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. In our model, entrepreneurs need credit to …
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This paper studies the effects of imperfect risk-sharing between lenders and borrowers on commercial property prices and leverage. The key friction is that agents use different discount rates to evaluate future flows. Eliminating this pecuniary externality generates large reductions in the...
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Swift changes in investors' sentiment, such as the one triggered by COVID-19 global outbreak in March 2020, lead to financial tensions and asset price volatility. We study the interactions of behavioral and financial frictions in an environment with endogenous risk-taking and capital...
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We use monthly data on individual loans from the Italian Credit Register over the period from 1997 to 2019 and show that bank credit expansions in the non-financial private sector are mostly explained by variations in the extensive margin calculated either in credit flows or headcount of new...
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