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Financial cycles, credit bubbles and stabilization policies

Corrado, Luisa; Schuler, Tobias - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments to mitigate financial bubbles generated in the banking … policy instruments in counteracting financial bubbles. We find that an endogenous capital requirement reduces the impact of a …

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Drivers of large recessions and monetary policy responses

Melina, Giovanni; Villa, Stefania - 2023

Shocks to capital utilization are introduced in a structural macroeconomic closed-economy model with financial frictions to capture disruptions on the ability of the capital stock to provide capital services used in production. Estimates for the Euro Area and the United States show that these...

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Market depth, leverage, and speculative bubbles

Enders, Zeno; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2017

We develop a model of rational bubbles based on leverage and the assumption of an imprecisely known maximum market size … lend to traders with limited liability in a bubble is endogenous. Bubbles reduce welfare of future investors. We provide … general conditions for the possibility of bubbles depending on uncertainty about market size, traders' degree of leverage and …

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Boom-bust cycles in middle income countries : facts and explanation

Tornell, Aaron; Westermann, Frank - 2002

In this paper we characterize empirically the comovements of macro variables typically observed in middle income countries, as well as the boom-bust cycle that has been observed during the last two decades. We find that many countries that have liberalized their financial markets, have witnessed...

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Cross-border banking in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?

Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2016

We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...

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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis", whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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Financial fragility, bubbles and monetary policy

Illing, Gerhard - 2001

The paper models the links between financial fragility, asset markets and monetary policy. It is shown that central bank's concern about the cost of financial disruption generates an asymmetric response, thus contributing to the creation of an asset price bubble. In an economy with a highly...

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Double-question survey measures for the analysis of financial bubbles and crashes

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Johnsson, Ida - 2016

This paper proposes a new double-question survey method that elicits information about how individuals.subjective belief valuations are compared and related to their price expectations. An individual respondent is presented with two sets of questions, one that asks about his/her belief regarding...

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Bubbles and collateral

Awaya, Yu; Do, Jihwan; Watanabe, Makoto - 2025

We construct a model of bubbles where an asset can be used as collateral primarily due to higher-order uncertainty … fool” exists who will purchase it at a much higher price. We show that such bubbles can lead to inefficient overinvestment …

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A vicious cycle of manias, crashes and asymmetric policy responses : an overinvestment view

Hoffmann, Andreas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2009

The business cycles theories of Wicksell (1898), Schumpeter (1912), Mises (1912), Hayek (1929, 1935) and Minsky (1986, 1992) explain business cycles by distorted prices on capital markets, buoyant credit expansion and overinvestment. The exuberance during the boom endogenously causes the...

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