Aggregate empirical evidence on the financial accelerator effect is highly debated. In this study, we apply multiresolution analysis, based on the continuous wavelet transform, to investigate the relationship between aggregate net worth and credit market variables in the commercial and...

This paper develops and estimates a macroeconomic model of real-financial markets interactions in which the behavior of banks generates endogenous business cycles. We do so in the context of a computational agent-based framework, where the channeling of funds from depositors to investors...

The cross holding of interbank deposits represents an optimal ex-ante co-insurance arrangement whenever the uncertainty concerning banks' liquidity needs is idiosyncratic and imperfectly correlated. When a shock to aggregate liquidity demand occurs, however, such an arrangement could be...

This paper develops a macroeconomic model of real-financial market interactions in which the credit and the business cycles reinforce each other according to a bidirectional causal relationship. We do so in the context of a computational agent-based framework, where the channelling of funds from...

Recent research has acknowledged the crucial role of financial intermediaries' balance sheet variables – namely, wealth and leverage – in the dynamics of asset prices. In this paper we use a prototypical “small-type” artificial financial market model with heterogeneous interacting...