 Good news is bad news: Leverage cycles and sudden stopsJournal of International Economics, 2018, vol. 114, issue C, 362-375 Abstract: We estimate a model with an occasionally-binding collateral constraint, and find that half of productivity shocks are anticipated by households. In the estimated model, good news about productivity raises leverage, increasing the probability that a Sudden Stop occurs in future periods. In the run-up to the Sudden Stop, the economy exhibits a boom period with consumption and investment above trend, consistent with the data. During the Sudden Stop, the nonlinear effects of the constraint induce consumption and investment to fall substantially below trend and the trade balance to reverse sharply, as they do in the data. The risk created by good news is large, with nearly 90% of Sudden Stops occurring after positive news shocks. Keywords: News Shocks; Sudden Stops; Leverage; Boom-Bust Cycle (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:inecon:v:114:y:2018:i:c:p:362-375 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2018.07.006 Access Statistics for this article Journal of International Economics is currently edited by Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier and RodrÃguez-Clare, Andrés More articles in Journal of International Economics from Elsevier |
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