Overborrowing, Financial Crises and 'Macro-prudential' Policy /

This paper studies overborrowing, financial crises and macro-prudential policy in an equilibrium model of business cycles and asset prices with collateral constraints. Agents in a decentralized competitive equilibrium do not internalize the negative effects of asset fire-sales on the value of other...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mendoza, Enrique
Other Authors: Bianchi, Javier
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/024
Online Access:Full text available on IMF