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that transforms a one-time productivity or financial shock into large and long-lasting boom-bust cycles. The predictions …
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This paper develops a DSGE model where banks use short-term deposits to provide firms with long-term credit. The demand for long-term credit arises because firms borrow in order to finance their capital stock which they only adjust at infrequent intervals. Within an RBC framework, we show that...
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This paper develops a DSGE model in which banks use short-term deposits to provide firms with long-term credit. The demand for long-term credit arises because firms borrow in order to finance their capital stock which they only adjust at infrequent intervals. We show within a real business cycle...
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borrowing limit, and housing investment, home-ownership, and household debt closely track aggregate productivity. In the late …
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This paper develops a simple model with collateralized borrowing constraints to explore the business cycle implications of financial leverage. The degree of leverage is shown to be an important factor in the amplifying role of collateral constraints, suggesting that the financial vulnerability...
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The interest rate at which US firms borrow funds has two features: (i) it moves in a countercyclical fashion and (ii) it is an inverted leading indicator of real economic activity: low interest rates forecast booms in GDP, consumption, investment, and employment. We show that a Kiyotaki-Moore...
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In the U.S. economy during the past 25 years, house prices exhibit fluctuations considerably larger than house rents, and these large fluctuations tend to move together with business cycles. We build a simple theoretical model to characterize these observations by showing the tight connection...
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Empirical evidence demonstrates that credit standards, including lending margins and collateral requirements, move in a countercyclical direction. In this study, we construct a small open economy model with financial frictions to generate the countercyclical movement in credit standards. Our...
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capital, which is highly correlated with market valuation and bears no consistent relation to measures of productivity … productivity growth, both within industry and across industries. To rationalize these facts, I propose a heterogeneous agent model … reallocated for productivity gains only, whereas bundled capital is also reallocated for real, or perceived synergies in the …
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productivity (TFP) in the nexus of the financial and real sectors …
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