We study the interactions of banks and firms within a leverage cycle to understand how capacity utilization and capital investment interact with funding costs, leverage by banks and firms, and liquidity. We show in a simulation study that when firms can grow and die by becoming insolvent, and...

The paper chronicles the evolution of financial regulation in Ireland, with particular attention given to the roles, responsibilities and actions of those authorities responsible for maintaining financial stability. It examines the role of financial regulation during the property bubble and...

We investigate the propagation of contagion through banks' balance sheets in a two-country model. We simulate an increase in non-performing loans in one bank, and study the effects on other banks and the macro economy of each country. We show that credit crunches destabilize each economy in the...

Ireland has experienced a series of interlocking banking, fiscal, unemployment and political crises since 2007. We detail the challenges involved in modeling individual moments of the crisis through the lens of the balance sheets and transactions matrices between sectors of the Irish society. A...