What are the effects of demographic changes on the real interest rate in Japan? We present a dynamic general equilibrium model in which demographic changes are captured by exogenous changes in the ratio of workers to the total population. Our model predicts that a decline in this ratio in the...

The recent financial crisis has raised the discussion among policy makers and researchers on the need of macroprudential policies to avoid systemic risks in financial markets. However, these new measures need to be combined with the traditional ones, namely monetary policy. The aim of this paper...

In the article the analysis of the crisis impact on the Russian mortgage market is carried out from the financial accelerator perspective. It is proved that the level of financial sustainability of banks and lenders shortly before the crisis predetermined their performance during the most acute...