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We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model for the positive and normative analysis of macroprudential policies. Optimizing financial intermediaries allocate their scarce net worth together with funds raised from saving households across two lending activities, mortgage and corporate lending....
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. Over time, the term structure of welfare costs varies substantially, predictably and with a volatility that decreases with …
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This paper studies the scope for cross-border contagion in the European banking sector using true bilateral exposure … propagation from 2008 to 2012. We study the distribution of contagion outcomes after a common shock and an exogenous bank default … propagation of losses. An econometric analysis of the determinants of contagion shows that the position of a bank in the network …
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spreaders” of financial contagion, identified as the most interconnected participants, consist mostly of banks. For some of them …
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of a contagion of confidence from “large countries” to “small countries”. I apply instrumental-variable regressions to …
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In order to derive closed-form expressions of the prices of credit derivatives, standard credit-risk models typically price the default intensities, but not the default events themselves. The default indicator is replaced by an appropriate prediction and the prediction error, that is the...
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incorporate business cycles or crises, to introduce contagion, to reproduce zero lower bound spells, or to evaluate the impact of …
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We analyze the risk-taking behavior of heterogenous intermediaries that are protected by limited liability and choose both their amount of leverage and the risk exposure of their portfolio. Due to the opacity of the financial sector, outside providers of funds cannot distinguish “prudent”...
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The value of land in the balance sheet of French firms correlates positively with their hiring and investment flows. To explore the relationship between these variables, we develop a macroeconomic model with firms that are subject to both credit and labor market frictions. The value of...
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This paper develops a simple business-cycle model in which financial shocks have large macroeconomic effects when private agents are gradually learning their economic environment. When agents update their beliefs about the unobserved process driving financial shocks to the leverage ratio, the...
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