Banking crises are rare events that break out in the midst of credit intensive booms and bring about particularly deep and long-lasting recessions. This paper attempts to explain these phenomena within a textbook DSGE model that features a non-trivial banking sector. In the model, banks are...

This paper compares different solution methods for computing the equilibrium of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models with rare disasters along the line of those proposed by Rietz (1988), Barro (2006}, Gabaix (2012), and Gourio (2012). DSGE models with rare disasters require...

After the recent financial crisis of 2007, a connection between monetary policy and financial stability has started to be thoroughly investigated. One of the particular areas of this research field deals with the role of various financial variables in the monetary policy rules. The main purpose...

Dynamical systems -- Deterministic linear systems -- Deterministic nonlinear systems -- Stochastic difference equations -- Markov processes -- Ergodic theory and stationary processes -- Dynamic optimization -- Markov decision process model -- Finite-horizon dynamic programming --...

This paper studies how financial intermediation varies across banks. Bank size is a first-order determinant of banks' capital structure in the cross-section. Largest banks have the lowest capital-to-asset ratio and the lowest ratio of Tier-1 capital against risk-weighted assets. These large...

New Keynesian and DSGE models fail to portray Keynes' insights in many respects. The intention of this paper is to offer a critical review of the so-called New Consensus Macroeconomics related to the understanding of the theoretical underpinning in The General Theory in which money plays a...