Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/111687 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
FinMaP-Working Paper No. 45
Publisher: 
Kiel University, FinMaP - Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance, Kiel
Abstract: 
The agent-based (behavioural) model is extended to include a financial friction on the supply side. Firms finance capital purchases using external financing, but need to pay for it in advance. In addition, firm financing constraint and net worth are determined by stock market prices, which can (and will) deviate from the fundamental value. The result is that production, supply of credit and the share that firms pay to capital producers heavily depends on the stock market cycles. During phases of optimism, credit is abundant, access to production capital is easy, the cash-in-advance constraint is lax, the risks are undervalued, and production is booming. But upon reversal in market sentiment, the contraction in all these parameters is deeper and asymmetric. This is even more evident in the behavioural model since cognitive limitations of economic agents result in exacerbation of the contraction. Lastly, the behavioural model matches much of the data, including the interest rate, inflation, firm credit, firm financing spread, and bank net worth. It is also successful in matching several supply-side relations (capital-firm credit, inflation-interest rate) as well as their autocorrelations. The results from the empirical validation are favourable to the behavioural model.
Subjects: 
supply-side
beliefs
financial frictions
model validation
JEL: 
B41
C63
C68
E22
E23
E37
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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