Adrian, Tobias; Boyarchenko, Nina - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2013
We document the cyclical properties of the balance sheets of different types of intermediaries. While the leverage of … 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 …