We integrate bank and bond financing into a two-sector neoclassical growth model to examine the stabilization effect of … endogenous bank leverage adjustment. We show that although bank leverage amplifies shocks, the increase of leverage to a decline … in bank equity is an automatic stabilizer in downturns, since it partially offsets the decline of bank lending to …

this channel, one bank's capital policy affects the equity value and risk of default of other banks. In a model where such … externalities are strong, bank capital takes on the attribute of a public good, where the private equilibrium features excessive … implications of the model with observed bank behavior during the crisis of 2007-09."--Abstract …