Our paper attempts to propose a novel transmission mechanism of international financial cycles through cross-border capital flows. We first document that a systemic banking crisis in one country is generally associated with a surge in financial capital inflows. Then, we develop a tractable model...

We provide a theory to investigate the implications of time-varying bailout policy for rational bubbles in an infinite-horizon production economy. In particular, we ask two questions. First, should the government bail out asset bubbles? Second, if yes, how? In our model, entrepreneurs face...

Using household-level survey and housing transaction data, we detect the flight to safety vis-a-vis housing in China: Great economic uncertainty causes the prices of housing assets to soar, especially those of good quality. To stabilize housing prices, China has imposed purchase restrictions on...

In the past decade, the Chinese economy has witnessed a great housing boom, accompanied by a slowdown in economic growth and an increase in firms' financial investment. The waning economic prospects are shown to lead to a surge in housing prices by stimulating firms' demand for financial...

We construct a model for Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency as risky and costly bubbles in an infinite-horizon production economy with incomplete markets. This model is consistent with the following facts: i) the surging Bitcoin market presents enormous volatility, and ii) its price dynamics are...

We offer a tractable dynamic theory where excessive credit creation by the frictional banking sector may lead to over-investment and then endogenous boom-bust cycles. We formalize the idea in a general equilibrium framework with banks and financially constrained heterogeneous firms. In the...