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I develop a framework of the build-up and outbreak of financial crises in an asymmetric information setting. In equilibrium, two distinct economic states arise endogenously: normal times – periods of modest investment, and booms – periods of expansionary investment. Normal times occur when...
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We investigate the relationship between bankruptcy risk and expected future sales growth for Norwegian non-listed firms … for the period 1988-2007. We find that firms with high bankruptcy risk also have high expected future growth. Financial … ratios characterizing firms with high bankruptcy risk also characterize firms with high future expected growth. Small firms …
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Observed macroeconomic forecasts display gradual recognition of the long-run growth of endogenous variables (e.g. output, output per hour) and a positive correlation between long-run growth expectations and cyclical activities. Existing business cycle models appear inconsistent with the...
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This paper aims at establishing the link between economic performance and financial stability in the European Union. We use the seminal framework – both in terms of variables and econometric method – of Beck and Levine (2004) to estimate this causal relationship, independently from but...
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We evaluate the role of financial conditions as predictors of macroeconomic risk first in the quantile regression …
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There is a general acceptance of the fact that a significant direct relationship between financial markets and macroeconomic variables exists, especially by considering the assertion that developed financial markets correspond to high GDP levels. This paper provides an investigation of the...
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important but often neglected element of micro- and macroeconomic theory. With the onset of the financial crisis in 2007 and the … of uncertainty in macroeconomic models against the background of the theory of real option values, with a strong focus on … crisis. Within a partial investment model, two kinds of uncertainty are introduced: volatility and disaster risk. The article …
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