Arbeitspapier

Financial crisis interventions

This paper develops a model of an economy where bank credit supports both productive investment and individual consumption smoothing in the face of idiosyncratic income risk. Bank credit is constrained by bank equity capital. When policy-makers inject equity capital during financial crises, they trade off stimulating credit supply immediately against long-term distortions related to funding equity injections. I calibrate my model and show that the bank equity capital injection that maximizes average utilitarian welfare redistributes from the poor to the wealthy. While wealthy savers benefit immediately from an increased supply of safe assets, less affluent borrowers and savers suffer from long-term distortions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2016-29

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
General Aggregative Models: Neoclassical
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Thema
Financial stability
Financial system regulation and policies
Lender of last resort
Credit and credit aggregates

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schroth, Josef
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2016

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2016-29
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schroth, Josef
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2016

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