We integrate bank and bond financing into a two-sector neoclassical growth model to examine the stabilization effect of … endogenous bank leverage adjustment. We show that although bank leverage amplifies shocks, the increase of leverage to a decline … in bank equity is an automatic stabilizer in downturns, since it partially offsets the decline of bank lending to …

We develop a novel dynamic model of banking showing that aggregate bank capital is an important determinant of bank …. Because of this financial friction, banks build equity buffers to absorb negative shocks. Aggregate bank capital determines …

, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases, which raises bank profitability and the market-to-book value of bank capital … model’s dynamic implications in a panel VAR estimation, which suggests that bank lending has even increased in the long …

, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases, which raises bank profitability and the market-to-book value of bank capital … model’s dynamic implications in a panel VAR estimation, which suggests that bank lending has even increased in the long …

, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases, which raises bank profitability and the market-to-book value of bank capital … model’s dynamic implications in a panel VAR estimation, which suggests that bank lending has even increased in the long …

Consumption and investment comove over the business cycle in response to shocks that permanently move the price of … investment. The interpretation of these shocks has relied on standard one-sector models or on models with two or more sectors … commingling of sectoral outputs in the assembly of final consumption and investment goods, in line with the U.S. Input …

Consumption and investment comove over the business cycle in response to shocks that permanently move the price of … investment. The interpretation of these shocks has relied on standard one-sector models or on models with two or more sectors … commingling of sectoral outputs in the assembly of final consumption and investment goods, in line with the U.S. Input …