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Leverage Restrictions in a Business Cycle Model / Lawrence Christiano, Daisuke Ikeda.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christiano, Lawrence.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18688.
- NBER working paper series no. w18688
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- We modify an otherwise standard medium-sized DSGE model, in order to study the macroeconomic effects of placing leverage restrictions on financial intermediaries. The financial intermediaries ('bankers') in the model must exert effort in order to earn high returns for their creditors. An agency problem arises because banker effort is not observable to creditors. The consequence of this agency problem is that leverage restrictions on banks generate a very substantial welfare gain in steady state. We discuss the economics of this gain. As a way of testing the model, we explore its implications for the dynamic effects of shocks.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2013.
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