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How do housing bubbles affect other economic sectors? We show that in the presence of collateral constraints, a bubble … initially raises housing credit demand and crowds out credit to non-housing firms. If the bubble lasts, however, housing credit … repayments raise banks' net worth and expand credit supply, so that crowding-out eventually gives way to crowding-in. This is …
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How do wages respond to financial recessions? Based on a dynamic macroeconomic model with frictions in the labor and the financial market, we address two prominent mechanism through which firms' financial constraints amplify unemployment and explore their effect on wages. First, the financial...
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constraints, a housing bubble initially raises credit demand by housing firms while leaving credit supply unaffected. It therefore … crowds out credit to non-housing firms. If time passes and the bubble lasts, however, housing firms eventually pay back their … higher loans. This leads to an increase in banks' net worth and thus to an expansion in their supply of credit to all firms …
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How do housing bubbles affect other economic sectors? We show that in the presence of collateral constraints, a bubble … initially raises housing credit demand and crowds out credit to non-housing firms. If the bubble lasts, however, housing credit … repayments raise banks' net worth and expand credit supply, so that crowding-out eventually gives way to crowding-in. This is …
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role to certain bubbles may have far-reaching policy implications …
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lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset … exposure that have a higher share of exporting firms in their credit portfolio. We also find that German regions where these …
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lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset … exposure that have a higher share of exporting firms in their credit portfolio. We also find that German regions where these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306821
This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...
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In the presence of financial frictions, banks' capital position may constrain their ability to provide loans. The banking sector may thus have important feedback effects on the macroeconomy. To shed new light on this issue, we combine two approaches. First, we use microeconomic balance sheet...
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, financial shocks such as borrower defaults, collateral shocks and credit supply effects amplify economic downturns by reducing … the flow of credit from banks to the real sector. In this novel application to the euro area, we introduce capital …
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