In this paper we: (i) provide a model of endogenous risk intolerance and serve aggregate demand contractions following … addressing these contractions. The key mechanism stems from heterogeneous risk tolerance: as a recessionary shock hits the … economy and brings down asset prices, risk-tolerant agents' wealth share declines and their leverage rises endogenously. This …

explicitly absorb a larger share of the systemic risk. The options for doing this range from surplus countries rebalancing their … securitization industry while removing the systemic risk from the banks' balance sheets. Such public-private solutions could be …

In this paper we: (i) provide a model of the endogenous risk intolerance and severe aggregate demand contractions … addressing these contractions. The key mechanism stems from heterogeneous risk tolerance: as a recessionary shock hits the … economy and brings down asset prices, risk-tolerant agents' wealth share declines and their leverage rises endogenously. This …

In this paper we: (i) provide a model of the endogenous risk intolerance and severe aggregate demand contractions … addressing these contractions. The key mechanism stems from heterogeneous risk tolerance: as a recessionary shock hits the … economy and brings down asset prices, risk-tolerant agents' wealth share declines and their leverage rises endogenously. This …

The recent financial crisis has damaged the reputation of macroeconomics, largely for its inability to predict the … evaporation, collateral shortages, bubbles, crises, panics, fire sales, risk-shifting, contagion, and the like. However, much of …

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may …-put framework that reduced the persistence of risk-off shocks. We also show that domestic macroeconomic and financial conditions … play a key role in benefiting from the spillovers of these policies during risk-off episodes. Countries like Japan, which …

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilising for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may … central banks were effective in containing asset price declines following risk-off episodes. These policies impacted long … rates and inspired confidence in a policy-put framework that reduced the persistence of risk-off shocks. We also show that …