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Empirical evidence demonstrates that credit standards, including lending margins and collateral requirements, move in a … countercyclical movement in credit standards. Our analysis demonstrates that countercyclical fluctuations in credit standards work as … an amplifier of shocks to the economy. In particular, the existence of endogenous credit standards increases output …
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, and the presence of credit-constrained households, on the other hand, affect the transmission of key macroeconomic and …
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Credit constraints that link a private agent’s debt to market-determined prices embody a credit externality that drives … shocks trigger the credit constraint. We quantify the effects of this inefficiency in a two-sector dynamic stochastic general … equilibrium model of a small open economy calibrated to emerging markets. The credit externality increases the probability of …
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bank credit becomes relatively more expensive, reflecting the scarcity of bank equity. More generally, the model is …
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bank credit becomes relatively more expensive, reflecting the scarcity of bank equity. More generally, the model is …
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credit restrictions not only amplify the results for the variability of labor share but also help better explain some of the …
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Empirical evidence shows that sovereign defaults are associated with significant downturns in economic activity in defaulting countries. However, the existing literature on sovereign debt and default mainly analyzes endowment economies and, therefore, does not address the relationship between...
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We present a DSGE model where firms optimally choose among alternative instruments of external finance. The model is used to explain the evolving composition of corporate debt during the financial crisis of 2008-09, namely the observed shift from bank finance to bond finance, at a time when the...
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Substantial attention has been paid in recent years to the risk of maturity mismatch in emerging markets. Although this risk is microeconomic in nature, the evidence advanced thus far has taken the form of macro correlations. This paper empirically evaluates this mechanism at the micro level by...
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Business credit lags GDP growth by about one year. This contributes to high leverage during recessions and slow …
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