Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153856 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1423
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We build a model of the euro area incorporating financial market frictions at the level of firms and households. Entrepreneurs borrow from financial intermediaries in order to purchase business capital, in the spirit of the "financial accelerator" literature. We also introduce two types of households that differ in their degree of time preference. All households have preferences for housing services. The impatient households are faced with a collateral constraint that is a function of the value of their housing stock. Our aim is to provide a unified framework for policy analysis that emphasizes financial market frictions alongside the more traditional model channels. The model is estimated by Bayesian methods using euro area aggregate data and model properties are illustrated with simulation and conditional variance and historical shock decomposition.
Subjects: 
Bayesian estimation
decompositions
DSGE modeling
euro area
Financial Frictions
Simulation
JEL: 
C11
C32
E32
E37
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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