The objective of this paper is to present a survey of the research related to the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle and, in particular, to investigate what economists have learned, which parts of the puzzle have been resolved, which parts remain to be addressed and where future research is heading to....

We model the expected support of banks with credit ratings from Moody's and Fitch, taking explicitly into account the capacity and willingness of governments to provide support in case of need, as well as their concerns about moral hazard (i.e., that the expected support may induce banks to...

Effective environmental policy should consider how the financiers of polluting firms behave. In our theoretical model describing the periods before and after policy implementation, loan spreads for firms participating in cap-and-trade programs are a function of the costs of compliance, the...