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Firm-Specific Productivity Risk Over the Business Cycle : Facts and Aggregate Implications

Bachmann, Ruediger - 2009

Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in uncertainty...

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The Cross-Section of Firms Over the Business Cycle : New Facts and a DSGE Exploration

Bachmann, Rudi - 2009

Using a German firm-level data set, this paper is the first to jointly study the cyclical properties of the cross-sections of firm-level real value added and Solow residual innovations, as well as capital and employment adjustment. We find two new business cycle facts: 1) The cross-sectional...

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Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and Their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations

Peersman, Gert - 2014

Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary … type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank … lending and risk-taking shocks, in contrast, have only a temporary effect on real GDP and tend to lead to a (moderate) rise in …

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Uncertainty and Economic Activity

Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio - 2014

The 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent anemic recovery have rekindled academic interest in quantifying the impact of uncertainty on macroeconomic dynamics based on the premise that uncertainty causes economic activity to slow down and contract. In this paper, we study the...

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Investment Shocks, Tax Evasion and the Consumption Puzzle : A DSGE Analysis with Financial Frictions

Chiarini, Bruno - 2016

explaining the consumption path after a Marginal Efficiency of Investment shock. We use an otherwise standard medium-scale New …

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Flexible Prices and Leverage

D'Acunto, Francesco - 2017

The frequency with which firms adjust output prices helps explain persistent differences in capital structure across firms. Unconditionally, the most exible-price firms have a 19% higher long-term leverage ratio than the most sticky-price firms, controlling for known determinants of capital...

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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined … between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent even without price rigidities and …

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Unexpected Loan Losses and Bank Capital in an Estimated DSGE Model of the Euro Area

Hristov, Nikolay - 2016

We develop a stylized DSGE model in which banks face capital regulation and their loan portfolios are subject to non-diversifiable losses due to aggregate shocks. The framework is used to explore the importance of the interaction between macroeconomic conditions, credit default and bank...

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The Impact of Basel III on Trade Finance : The Potential Unintended Consequences of the Leverage Ratio

Auboin, Marc - 2014

100% leverage tax on assets such as letters of credit would reduce their natural attractiveness relative to higher-risk …

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Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation : The Impact of Policy

Berka, Martin - 2013

This paper studies loan activity in a context where banks must follow Basel Accord-type rules and acquire financing from households. Loan activity typically decreases when entrepreneurs' investment returns decline, and we study which type of policy could revigorate an economy in a trough. We...

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