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Balance-Sheet Shocks and Recapitalizations

By Damiano Sandri, Fabian Valencia

March 1, 2012

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Damiano Sandri, and Fabian Valencia. Balance-Sheet Shocks and Recapitalizations, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with financial frictions on both financial intermediaries and goods-producing firms. In this context, due to high leverage of financial intermediaries, balance sheet disruptions in the financial sector are particularly detrimental for aggregate output. We show that the welfare gains from recapitalizing the financial sector in response to large but rare net worth losses are as large as those from eliminating business cycle fluctuations. We also find that these gains are increasing in the size of the net worth loss, are larger when recapitalization funds are raised from the household rather than the real sector, and may increase with a reduction in financial intermediaries idiosyncratic risk.

Subject: Economic sectors, Economic theory, Financial frictions, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Labor, Nonbank financial institutions, Self-employment

Keywords: Agency problem, Balance-sheet shocks, Bank bailouts, Business cycle, Financial accelerator, Financial frictions, Financial sector, Gains from recapitalization, Global, Leverage, Nonbank financial institutions, Recapitalization fund, Recapitalization policy, Recapitalization process, Recapitalization share, Self-employment, Welfare gain, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    26

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2012/068

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2012068

  • ISBN:

    9781463938451

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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