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Falling behind : has rising inequality fueled the American debt boom?

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Greimel, Fabian - 2024

This paper studies whether the interplay of social comparisons in housing and rising income inequality contributed to the household debt boom in the US between 1980 and 2007. We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with general social comparisons in housing to show that changes in the...

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Optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts : the effects of potential prepayment and default

Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Kangoh - 2014

Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers. However, to decide if the outcome of such a choice is efficient or approximately so, it is necessary to explore the question of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But...

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Strategic complementarity, fragility, and regulation

Vives, Xavier - 2011 - Rev. May 2011

The paper analyzes a very stylized model of crises and demonstrates how the degree of strategic complementarity in the actions of investors is a critical determinant of fragility. It is shown how the balance sheet composition of a financial intermediary, parameters of the information structure...

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Portfolio sales and signaling

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Worrall, Timothy - 2017

A common practice of banks has been to pool assets of different qualities and then sell a fraction of the newly created portfolios to investors. We extend the signaling model for single sales of risky assets to portfolio sales. We identify conditions under which signaling at the portfolio level...

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Insurers monitor shocks to collateral : micro evidence from mortgage-backed securities

Fetzer, Thiemo; Guin, Benjamin; Netto, Felipe; Saidi, Farzad - 2024

This paper uncovers if and how insurance companies react to shocks to collateral in their portfolio of securitized assets. We address this question in the context of commercial real estate cash flow shocks, which are informationally opaque to holders of commercial mortgage-backed securities...

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Disciplining ballots? : (un-intended) effects of voter engagement on the fiscal sustainability of Swiss cantons

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023

We test whether the proactive use of instruments of direct democracy by voters can help to explain fiscal sustainability of 25 Swiss cantons. Using data of all cantonal popular votes since 1977, our results show that the fiscal reaction of cantonal governments to an increase in the debt to GDP...

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Role of finance in Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman model of international trade

Marjit, Sugata; Dutta, Meghna; Roy, Moushakhi - 2022

This paper introduces finance or credit in the Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman (DSK) model of international trade. It identifies … mechanisms by which finance can affect the main results of the conventional model. The key results are as follows. Perfect credit … output per variety. Thus, availability of finance will determine a specific trade pattern between richer and poorer nations …

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Proprietary public finance : on its emergence and evolution out of anarchy

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2011

finance, however, is comparatively scarce. I argue that proprietary rule emerges out of anarchy and its main alternative …

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What should fiscal councils do?

Calmfors, Lars; Wren-Lewis, Simon - 2011

The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...

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Fiscal transfers and fiscal sustainability

Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2014

We examine whether US and German state governments pursue sustainable fiscal policies taking into account fiscal transfers. Using panel data techniques we investigate whether the debt-to-GDP ratio had a positive influence on the primary surplus (Bohn-model). We show that including/excluding...

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