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Capital reallocation is procyclical, despite measured productive reallocative opportunities being acyclical, or even … countercyclical. This paper reviews the advances in the literature studying the causes and consequences of capital reallocation (or … lack thereof). We provide a comprehensive set of capital reallocation stylized facts for the US, and an illustrative model …
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We show that household leverage as of 2006 is a powerful statistical predictor of the severity of the 2007 to 2009 recession across U.S. counties. Counties in the U.S. that experienced a large increase in household leverage from 2002 to 2006 showed a sharp relative decline in durable consumption...
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We evaluate and partially challenge the 'household leverage' view of the Great Recession. In the data, employment and consumption declined more in states where household debt declined more. We study a model where liquidity constraints amplify the response of consumption and employment to changes...
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suggests that although bank lending to firms declines during the crisis, bond financing actually increases to make up much of …
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This paper studies the role of credit in the business cycle, with a focus on private credit overhang. Based on a study of the universe of over 200 recession episodes in 14 advanced countries between 1870 and 2008, we document two key facts of the modern business cycle: financial-crisis...
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when they anticipate high valuations, and underperform subsequently? In this paper, we propose a theory of financing cycles …
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"This paper revisits the issue of money growth versus the interest rate as the instrument of monetary policy. Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework, we examine the effects of alternative monetary policy rules on inflation persistence, the information content of monetary data,...
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