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We explore the structural drivers of bank and nonbank credit cycles using an estimated medium-scale macro model that … allows for bank and nonbank financial intermediation. We posit economy-wide aggregate and sectoral disturbances to … potentially drive bank and nonbank credit growth. We find that sectoral shocks affecting the balance sheets of entrepreneurs who …
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, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …
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Estimating the effect of Federal Reserve's announcements of Large-Scale Asset Purchase (LSAP) programs on corporate credit risk is complicated by the simultaneity of policy decisions and movements in prices of risky financial assets, as well as by the fact that both interest rates of assets...
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I revisit the Great Inflation and the Great Moderation for nominal and real variables. I document an immoderation in corporate balance sheet variables so that the Great Moderation is best described as a period of divergent patterns in volatilities for real, nominal and financial variables. A...
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policy shocks are prevalent. A monetary policy reaction function that responds to movements in bank leverage or to movements …
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, making the run self-fulfilling and negatively affecting investment. In this framework I study how central bank credit …
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results by highlighting their sensitivity to the choice of policy instrument. For the second example, a central bank and a …
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This paper empirically identifies an important channel through which monetary policy affects consumer spending: homeowner balance sheets. A monetary loosening increases home values, thereby strengthening homeowner balance sheets and stimulating household spending due to a combination of...
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The Great Moderation in the U.S. economy was accompanied by a widespread increase in the volatility of financial variables. We explore the sources of the divergent patterns in volatilities by estimating a model with time-varying financial rigidities subject to structural breaks in the size of...
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We construct a general equilibrium model in which income inequality results in insufficient aggregate demand, deflation pressure, and excessive credit growth by allocating income to agents featuring low marginal propensity to consume, and if excessive, can lead to an endogenous financial crisis....
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