Adrian, Tobias; Boyarchenko, Nina - 2013
the bank sector is highly procyclical, the leverage of the nonbank financial sector is acyclical. We propose a theory of a … two-agent financial intermediary sector within a dynamic model of the macroeconomy. Banks are financed by issuing risky … financialsector assets. The procyclicality of the banking sector is due to its risk-based funding constraints, which give a central …