The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt

van der Hoog S (2015) Working Papers in Economics and Management; 08-2015.
Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics.

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We study an economy with a high degree of financialization in which (non-financial) firms need loans from commercial banks to finance production, service debt, and make long-term investments. Along the business cycle, the economy follows Minskyan dynamics with firms traversing various stages of financial fragility, i.e. hedge, speculative and Ponzi finance (cf., Minsky, 1978, 1986). In the speculative finance stage, cash flows are insufficient to finance debt repayments, and banks are willing to provide roll-over credits in order to prevent a default on the debt. In the Ponzi finance stage, banks are still willing to keep firms alive through ”extend and pretend” loans, also known as zombie-lending (Caballero et al, 2008). This lending behavior may cause credit bubbles with increasing leverage ratios. Empirical evidence suggests that recessions following such leveraging booms are more severe and can be associated to higher economic costs (Jorda et al, 2011; Schularick and Taylor, 2012). We therefore study policy measures that might mitigate the severity and intensity of the economic losses ensuing from such severe downturns. We investigate micro- and macro-prudential regulations aimed at: (i) the prevention and mitigation of credit bubbles, (ii) ensuring macro-financial stability, and (iii) limiting the ability of banks to create unsustainable debt. Our results show that the use of non-risk-weighted capital ratios have slightly positive effects, while cutting-off funding to all financially unsound firms (speculative and Ponzi) has very strong positive effects. However, merely cutting-off funds to Ponzi financed firms has hardly any effect at all.
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Agent-Based Macroeconomics; Full Equity Finance; Full Reserve Banking; Financialization; Eurace@Unibi model; agent-based modelling; Macroprudential regulation
Erscheinungsjahr
2015
Serientitel
Working Papers in Economics and Management
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08-2015
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33
ISSN
2196−2723
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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2781923

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van der Hoog S. The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt. Working Papers in Economics and Management. Vol 08-2015. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics; 2015.
van der Hoog, S. (2015). The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt (Working Papers in Economics and Management, 08-2015). Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics. doi:10.4119/unibi/2781923
van der Hoog, Sander. 2015. The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt. Vol. 08-2015. Working Papers in Economics and Management. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics.
van der Hoog, S. (2015). The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt. Working Papers in Economics and Management, 08-2015, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics.
van der Hoog, S., 2015. The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt, Working Papers in Economics and Management, no.08-2015, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics.
S. van der Hoog, The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt, Working Papers in Economics and Management, vol. 08-2015, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics, 2015.
van der Hoog, S.: The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt. Working Papers in Economics and Management, 08-2015. Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics, Bielefeld (2015).
van der Hoog, Sander. The Limits to Credit Growth: Mitigation Policies and Macroprudential Regulations to Foster Macrofinancial Stability and Sustainable Debt. Bielefeld: Bielefeld University, Department of Business Administration and Economics, 2015. Working Papers in Economics and Management. 08-2015.
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