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Uncertainty and the Cost of Bank vs. Bond Finance

Grimme, Christian - 2019

How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending rates. This finding can be explained with a model that...

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Behavioural Credit Cycles

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Iannotta, Gabriele - 2022

We explore the intertwined dynamics of asset prices and the macroeconomy in a Behavioural model of Credit Cycles (BCC …) characterized by a credit friction à la Kiyotaki and Moore and heterogeneous expectations cum heuristic switching à la Brock and …

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Different No More : Country Spreads in Advanced and Emerging Economies

Born, Benjamin - 2020

Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...

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Financial liberalization in a small open economy

von Hagen, Jürgen; Zhang, Haiping - 2006

We analyze the long-run and short-run implications of financial liberalization in a small open economy. Our main results are as follows. First, whether financial deregulation in one sector can improve production efficiency may depend on financial regulation in other sectors. Second, financial...

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Financial frictions and inflation differentials in a monetary union

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2010

that empirically plausible degrees of heterogeneity with respect to two important credit market characteristics - namely …

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Consumption risk sharing over the business cycle: the role of small firms' access to credit markets

Hoffmann, Mathias; Shcherbakova, Iryna - 2009

firms' access to credit markets plays an important role in explaining this stylized fact: business cycle fluctuations in … addition, better access of small firms to credit markets in the wake of state-level banking deregulation during the 1980s seems … better access to credit markets may have made it easier for the owners of small firms to smooth income in the face of adverse …

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The nature of financial and real business cycles: The great moderation and banking sector pro-cyclicality

Egert, Balazs; Sutherland, Douglas - 2012

This paper takes a fresh look at the nature of financial and real business cycles in OECD countries using annual data series and shorter quarterly and monthly economic indicators. It first analyses the main characteristics of the cycle, including the length, amplitude, asymmetry and changes of...

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Stock Market's Assessment of Monetary Policy Transmission : The Cash Flow Effect

Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2019

We show that firm liability structure and associated cash flow matter for firm behavior, and that financial market participants price stocks accordingly. Looking at firm level stock price changes around monetary policy announcements, we find that firms that have more cash flow exposure see their...

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Liberalization and Stock Market Co-Movement between Emerging Economies

Beine, Michel; Candelon, Bertrand - 2021

In this paper, we investigate the impact of trade and financial liberalization on the degree of stock market co-movement among emerging economies. Using a sample of 25 developing countries observed over 15 years, we estimate the impact of reforms which aim at opening these countries to trade and...

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Financial Cycles, Credit Bubbles and Stabilization Policies

Corrado, Luisa - 2019

This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments to mitigate financial bubbles generated in the banking sector. We augment a New Keynesian macroeconomic framework by endogenizing boundedly-rational expectations on asset values of loan portfolios and allow for interbank trading. We...

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