Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153923 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1490
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In this paper, we build a Kiyotaki-Moore style collateral amplification framework which generates large endogenous fluctuations in the leverage available to investing firms. We assume that defaulting borrowers lose not only their tangible collateral but also their future debt market access. The possibility of such market exclusion can lead to the emergence of intangible collateral in equilibrium alongside the tangible collateral which is usually studied in the literature. Fluctuations in the value of intangible collateral are isomorphic to fluctuations in the downpayments they need to make in their purchases of productive assets. This modification of the Kiyotaki-Moore model substantially increases its amplification of exogenous shocks.
Subjects: 
aggregate fluctuations
Collateral constraints
JEL: 
E44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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