In addition to leverage, the aggregate debt service burden is an important link between financial and real developments … interactions between leverage and the debt service burden lead to large and protracted cycles in credit and expenditure that match … debt service burden from 2005 onwards imply paths for credit and expenditure that closely match actual developments before …

In this paper we empirically explore the relationship between debt and output in a panel of 72 countries over the … predicted by a standard small open economy model by Aguiar and Gopinath (2007), where debt and output endogenously respond to … total factor productivity (TFP) shocks. First, developing countries' debt falls after a positive output shock, while the …

The rapid accumulation of private debt is widely viewed as a major risk to financial and economic stability. This paper … systematically and comprehensively assesses the effect of private debt buildup on economic growth. In the spirit of Mian, Sufi, and … Verner (2017) that separately examine the effects of two types of private debt, i.e., household debt and corporate debt, on …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between the speed of buildup of private debt (household and … basis of how quickly their private debt builds up. In addition to output recessions, we look at consumption and investment … corporate debt is especially damaging for emerging markets during financial recessions. A higher ratio of debt to gross domestic …

The recent financial crises pointed out the central role of public and private debt in modern economies. However, even … if debt is a recurring topic in discussions about the current economic situation, economic modelling does not take into … account debt as one of the crucial determinants of economic dynamics. Our contribution, in this paper, is to investigate the …

The recent financial crises pointed out the central role of public and private debt in modern economies. However, even … if debt is a recurring topic in discussions about the current economic situation, economic modeling does not take into … account debt as one of the crucial determinants of economic dynamics. The authors' contribution, in this paper, is to …

The recent financial crises pointed out the central role of public and private debt in modern economies. However, even … if debt is a recurring topic in discussions about the current economic situation, economic modelling does not take into … account debt as one of the crucial determinants of economic dynamics. Our contribution, in this paper, is to investigate the …

Überkapazitäten – in Verbindung mit einer von den Präferenzen der Konsumenten deutlich abweichenden Kapitalstruktur – und einer … – and of a severe debt crisis affecting both firms/households and commercial banks. While it is possible – with the help of …

This paper develops a debt-run model to study the effects of liquidity injections on debt markets in the presence of a … terms of debt. We show that when equityholders have a large bargaining power, liquidity injections into distressed firms can … rather cause more aggressive runs from their creditors, hurting the debt value. This outcome occurs because equityholders can …