Fire Sales and the Financial Accelerator /

During periods of financial turmoil, increases in risk lead to higher default, foreclosure, and fire sales. This paper introduces a costly liquidation process for foreclosed collateral and endogenous recovery rates in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the financial accelerator. Consi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Choi, Woon
Other Authors: Cook, David
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/141
Online Access:Full text available on IMF