Liquidity, infinite horizons and macroeconomic fluctuations
Liquidity, infinite horizons and macroeconomic fluctuations
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流动性、无限视野和宏观经济波动
DOI:
10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.01.010
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
R. Kato
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作者:
R. Kato
This paper develops a computable dynamic general equilibrium model in which corporate demand for liquidity is endogenously determined. In the model, liquidity demand is motivated by moral hazard, as in Holmström and Tirole (J. Politic. Econom. 106 (1998) 1). As a result of incorporating agency cost and endogenously determined liquidity demand, the model can replicate an empirical business cycle fact, the hump-shaped dynamic response of output, which is seldom observed in standard RBC dynamics. Further, in the model the corporate demand for liquidity from a financial intermediary (credit line, for instance) is pro-cyclical, while the degree of liquidity dependence (defined as liquidity demand divided by corporate investment) is counter-cyclical. These business cycle patterns are consistent with a stylized fact empirically verified in the lending view literature.