It's well-known that regulation can have profound effects on asset prices and market fragmentation. Yet existing evidence is very thin. We contribute by assessing the effects of Basel III on financial market fragmentation using the UK repo market as an important case study. Evidence is...

We assess the risk inherent in wind turbine investments that rely on a power market in order to determine the selling price of generated power. Using scenario analysis, we calculate various indexes that attempt to highlight different aspects of the market risk to which the energy producer is...

We attempt to explain two stylized facts of the Great Recession, namely the build-up of high leverage in the household sector in the boom phase, deep busts and protracted recovery as rare systemic events. We extend Boz and Mendoza (2014) by explicitly modeling the credit markets and modifying...

In this paper we present a model of optimizing behavior in a two-sector, centrally planned, economy that faces a given interest rate and that is capable of generating sustainable growth. By allowing the model economy to benefit from innovations at the technology frontier through a simple process...

This paper compares two state-of-the-art but very distinct methods used in macroeconomics: rational-expectations DSGE and bounded rationality behavioural models. Both models are extended to include financial frictions on the supply side. The result in both frameworks is that production, supply...