Divergent risk-attitudes and endogenous collateral constraints

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Economic Theory
Year: 2021
Volume: 192
Issue: C

Authors (2)

Curatola, Giuliano (not in RePEc) Faia, Ester (Goethe Universität Frankfurt a...)

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Financial crises are anticipated by leverage build-up and asset price booms and followed by sharp de-leveraging and asset price burst. Leverage pro-cyclicality, debt margins counter-cyclicality and heightened asset price volatility are often hard to reconcile with credit frictions models, with and without occasionally binding constraints. We show that a model in which the anticipatory effects of occasionally binding collateral constraints interact with borrowers' time-varying risk-attitudes (modeled through gain-loss reference dependent utilities) and with borrowers/lenders risk-attitudes heterogeneity can explain those facts. Simulations through global methods show that the model can also match numerous statistics characterizing the asset price and leverage cycles.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jetheo:v:192:y:2021:i:c:s002205312030168x
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-25