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stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the …
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This paper provides an asymmetric information analysis of the recent East Asian crisis. It then outlines several lessons from this crisis. First, there is a strong rationale for an international lender of last resort. Second, without appropriate conditionality for this lending, the moral hazard...
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. This model generates dynamic relationships between foreign capital inflows, domestic investment and domestic bank debt in … accumulation of bank debt and increasing concentration of domestic lending and investment to the anticipation of contingent …
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the end of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real … financial market - has investment fall steeply during the recession not because of any distortions with the supply of capital …
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probability of disaster leads to a collapse of investment and a recession, an increase in risk spreads, and a decrease in the … of business cycle dynamics, especially sharp downturns in investment and output such as 2008-IV …
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This paper develops an interpretation of the Asian meltdown focused on moral hazard as the common source of overinvestment, excessive external borrowing, and current account deficits. To the extent that foreign creditors are willing to lend to domestic agents against future bail-out revenue from...
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We present a model of investment hangover motivated by the Great Recession. In our model, overbuilding of residential … economy enters a liquidity trap with limited reallocation and low output. The drop in output reduces nonresidential investment … through a mechanism similar to the acceleration principle of investment. The burst in nonresidential investment is followed by …
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reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …
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of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real GDP that … closely resemble actual U.S. time series. Despite having no explicit financial market, the model has investment fall steeply …
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six months, generating an expected net present value (NPV) of over $400 billion. A proportionate advance-investment …
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