We seek to develop a business cycle model with a financial sector which can be used to study the consequences of policies to restrict the leverage of financial institutions (banks). Because we wish the model to be consistent with basic features of business cycle data we introduce our banking system ...

The paper by Christiano and Ikeda in this volume is one of the first efforts to quantify the welfare gains of leverage constraints in a macroeconomic model with a banking sector. Unlike other models their answer is that they can be even more desirable when banks hold little equity and intermediation ...

The debate over the effectiveness of monetary policy often centers around the benefits of low interest rates as a stimulus for the real economy. The idea is that low interest rates encourage spending either in the form of consumption or investment and this promotes employment and production. The ...

A novel element in the policy mix that responded to the 2008- 2009 financial crisis was the explicit role given to BancoEstado a publicly-owned commercial bank to alleviate the contraction in domestic credit provided by the banking sector. In order to aid its mission BancoEstado was capitalized by 500 ...

Siguiendo a Jara y Oda (2007), consideramos un grupo de bancos Chilenos especializados en créditos de consumo. Tomando la dinámica del grupo agregado, proponemos un modelo de riesgo de crédito basado en el gasto en provisiones. Utilizando relaciones contables, mostramos que el modelo es dinámico y ...

El estudio de los spreads de tasas de interés bancarias es clave para entender el proceso de intermediación financiera. Por lo general, la disponibilidad de datos restringe los análisis empíricos a medidas de spreads construidas a partir de los estados financieros de los bancos. Nuestro estudio ocupa ...

El artículo contiene un estudio empírico de la relación banco-cliente, basado en una muestra de empresas manufactureras Chilenas. En él se analiza si la concentración y la duración de la relación entre deudor y acreedor afectan el volumen de endeudamiento bancario. Los resultados indican que la menor ...

Do better functioning financial intermediaries -financial intermediaries that are better at ameliorating information asymmetrics and facilitating transactions- exert a causal influence on economic growth? Providing evidence on causality has implications for policymakers and economists. For instance, ...

The devaluation of the Thau bath in July 1997 triggered a major international financial crisis in East Asia, similar in many ways to the Latin American debt crisis of the early 1980s. The baht´s devaluation led to a Seriesos sharp devaluations in several other Asian countries, in particular Indonesia, ...

During the late 1980s, Japanese banks substantially increased their global presence. In part the expansion was undertaken to help service Japanese companies that were increasingly involved in foreign direct investment. However, this expansion also can be attibuted to Japan's positio as the world's ...