Macroeconomic effects of secondary market trading

Daniel Neuhann

No 2039, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: This paper develops a theory of the credit cycle to account for recent evidence that capital is increasingly allocated to inefficiently risky projects over the course of the boom. The model features lenders who sell risk exposure to non-lender investors in order to relax borrowing constraints, but are tempted to produce and sell off bad assets when asset prices are sufficiently high. Asset prices gradually increase during the boom because non-lender wealth grows as their risk-taking pays off, triggering a fall in asset quality and precipitating an eventual crisis. I study the initial conditions that give rise to the credit cycle and consider policy implications. JEL Classification: G01, E32, E44

Keywords: credit booms; credit cycles; financial crisis; financial fragility; risk-taking channel of monetary policy; saving gluts; secondary markets; securitization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-03
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