Credit risk transfers and the macroeconomy

Arbeitspapier

The recent financial crisis has highlighted the limits of the "originate to distribute" model of banking, but its nexus with the macroeconomy and monetary policy remains unexplored. I build a DSGE model with banks (along the lines of Holmström and Tirole [28] and Parlour and Plantin [39]) and examine its properties with and without active secondary markets for credit risk transfer. The possibility of transferring credit reduces the impact of liquidity shocks on bank balance sheets, but also reduces the bank incentive to monitor. As a result, secondary markets allow to release bank capital and exacerbate the effect of productivity and other macroeconomic shocks on output and inflation. By offering a possibility of capital recycling and by reducing bank monitoring, secondary credit markets in general equilibrium allow banks to take on more risk.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 1256

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: credit risk transfer ; dual moral hazard ; liquidity ; monetary policy ; Welfare ; Kreditrisiko ; Sekundärmarkt ; Dynamisches Gleichgewicht ; Moral Hazard ; Geldpolitik ; Liquidität ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Faia, Ester
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): European Central Bank (ECB)
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/153690
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET