This paper investigates the impact of the new capital requirements introduced under the Basel III framework on bank lending rates and loan growth. Higher capital requirements, by raising banks’ marginal cost of funding, lead to higher lending rates. The data presented in the paper suggest that...

Drawing from a unique data set comprising 2,893 banks and 152 countries over the period 1987 to 2000, we test whether the adoption of the Basel Accord by Latin American and Caribbean countries was responsible for the serious slowdowns in credit growth experienced by these countries. We find...

This paper highlights the importance of debt composition in setting optimal fiscal and monetary policy over short-run business cycles and in the long run. Nominal debt as state-contingent debt can be a significant policy tool to reduce the volatility of distortionary government policy, thereby...

The analytic method of Chen, Cosimano, and Himonas (CCH 2009) is extended to prove that the continuous time version of the long run risk model of Bansal and Yaron (2004) has an analytic solution. The long run risk model is dependent on the recursive utility introduced by Duffie and Epstein...

This work develops an external habit model of the equity premium subject to long run risk in continuous time. The solution to this model is an analytic price-dividend function of the surplus consumption ratio and the long run risk variable. As a result, the equity premium can be accurately...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) initiated by China in 2013 is a new experiment in regional cooperation, which aims to improve infrastructure connectivity through investment. This paper investigates whether the BRI created exports for its member states (excluding China), based on a...