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Financial intermediaries issue the majority of liquid securities, and nonfinancial firms have become net savers, holding intermediaries' debt as cash. This paper shows that intermediaries' liquidity creation stimulates growth -- firms hold their debt for unhedgeable investment needs -- but also...
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Considering the deep and long-lasting impact of severe recessions, such as the 2008-09 financial crisis, it is important that measures be taken to minimise the risk of such event. But in doing so the benefits need to be balanced against the potential costs in terms of lower average growth that...
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The paper investigates the life-cycle of the 2008-2009 financial crisis by linking the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) Scoreboard of the European Commission to the crisis database of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). The novelty of the analysis is that early warning capacity of...
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While the legitimacy of the concept of the financial cycle (as distinct from the business cycle) in research and economic policy after the experience of the global financial crisis raises no concerns, the methodology for its application has become a subject of discussion. The purpose of this...
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The paper investigates three major debates on contemporary economies: (i) if the major components of real economic activity (RECs) stimulate financial development (FND) but not vice versa, (ii) if RECs and FND jointly suppress labor, and (iii) if these two dynamics have incurred any substantial...
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This paper explores how different credit market and banking regulations affect business fluctuations. Capital adequacy and reserve requirements are analysed for their effect on the risk of severe downturns. We develop an agent-based macroeconomic model in which financial contagion is transmitted...
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fundamental cause of the unfolding financial and economic crisis: the accumulation of several bubbles and their interplay and …
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fundamental cause of the unfolding financial and economic crisis: the accumulation of several bubbles and their interplay and …
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Financial bubbles are subject to debate and controversy. However, they are not well understood and are hardly ever … specific traces, bubbles may be recognised in advance: that is, before they burst. In this paper, we will explain the mechanism … behind financial bubbles in an intuitive way. We will show how the log-periodic power law emerges spontaneously from the …
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This paper analyses the current financial crisis from a Neo-Schumpeterian perspective. We postulate four linkages that led to the crisis, and that will help us find our way out of the crisis. Therefore, we show that the current evolution is very similar to the Japanese crisis in the beginning of...
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