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margin of flexibility in coping with adverse shocks. In this setting, we simulate a risk shock that propagates its effects in … accelerator. For this purpose, we assume that financially constrained agents are tax evaders, taking advantage of an additional … the credit channel via the financial accelerator mechanism. The results show that tax evasion is pro cyclical and …
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explaining the consumption path after a Marginal Efficiency of Investment shock. We use an otherwise standard medium-scale New …
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leading approaches in the literature. In particular, the framework exhibits a “financial accelerator”, in that endogenous … financial accelerator has a significant influence on business cycle dynamics. …
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We introduce financial frictions in the spirit of Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999) into a standard RBC model and use the heterogeneous-prior framework of Angeletos, Collard, and Dellas (2018) to accommodate confidence-driven business cycle fluctuations. We show that financial frictions...
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general-equilibrium model with a financial accelerator. He evaluates the role of the banking sector in the transmission and …
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margin of flexibility in coping with adverse shocks. In this setting, we simulate a risk shock that propagates its effects in … accelerator. For this purpose, we assume that financially constrained agents are tax evaders, taking advantage of an additional … the credit channel via the financial accelerator mechanism. The results show that tax evasion is pro cyclical and …
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We identify an inflationary technology news shock as the leading source of business cycle variations for the postwar U ….S. economy. This shock acts like a demand shock: it induces strong positive comovement in real quantities - GDP, consumption … technological innovations reduce inflation. The technology news shock became the predominant source of the business cycle from the …
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How do aggregate quantities at the business cycle frequency respond to shocks to the spread between residential mortgage rates and government bonds? Using a structural VAR approach, we find that mortgage spread shocks impact the real economy by both economically and statistically significant...
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In this paper we present an overview of theoretical and empirical contributions exploring the inter-linkages between financial factors and real economic activity. We first revisit the main theoretical approaches that allow financial frictions to be embedded into general equilibrium models, and...
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