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The behavioural agent-based framework of De Grauwe and Gerba (2015) is extended to allow for a counterfactual exercise on the role of banks for monetary transmissions. A bank-based corporate financing friction is introduced and the relative contribution of that friction to the effectiveness of...
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asset side and equity capital as well as debt on the liabilities side. A number of findings emerge when simulating the model … higher levels of leverage lead to a greater inequality among agents. Furthermore, greater leverage increases the frequency of … bankruptcies and systemic events. Credit frictions, which we define as the stickiness of debt adjustments, are able to explain a …
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This paper investigates how the conditional quantiles of future returns and volatility of financial assets vary with various measures of ex-post variation in asset prices as well as option-implied volatility. We work in the exible quantile regression framework and rely on recently developed...
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calibrate the model to match the quintiles of the distri- bution of leverage ratios of US non-financial firms. We show that …
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