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| Other authors / contributors: | Boz, Emine, author.
Mendoza, Enrique G., 1963- author.
International Monetary Fund. Research Department.
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| ISBN: | 1475576625
9781475576627
1475505299
9781475505290
1475570724
9781475570724
9781475505290
9781475570724
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed July 24, 2012).
"Research Department.
"July 2012."
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Summary: | The interaction between credit frictions, financial innovation, and a switch from optimistic to pessimistic beliefs played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis. This paper develops a quantitative general equilibrium framework in which this interaction drives the financial amplification mechanism to study the effects of macro-prudential policy. Financial innovation enhances the ability of agents to collateralize assets into debt, but the riskiness of this new regime can only be learned over time. Beliefs about transition probabilities across states with high and low ability to borrow change as agents learn from observed realizations of financial conditions. At the same time, the collateral constraint introduces a pecuniary externality, because agents fail to internalize the effect of their borrowing decisions on asset prices. Quantitative analysis shows that the effectiveness of macro-prudential policy in this environment depends on the government's information set, the tightness of credit constraints and the pace at which optimism surges in the early stages of financial innovation. The policy is least effective when the government is as uninformed as private agents, credit constraints are tight, and optimism builds quickly.
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