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Behavioural credit cycles

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  • Domenico Delli Gatti

    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
    Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

  • Gabriele Iannotta

Abstract

We explore the intertwined dynamics of asset prices and the macroeconomy in a Behavioural model of Credit Cycles (BCC) characterized by a credit friction a' la Kiyotaki and Moore and heterogeneous expectations cum heuristic switching a la Brock and Hommes. This behavioural approach allows to better understand and replicate the effects of shocks. In the absence of actual defaults, following a positive productivity shock, our behavioural model (BCC Mark I) generates hump-shaped impulse-response functions that are more realistic than those generated by the same shock in a corresponding model with rational expec- tations (RCC). When the behavioural model allows also for defaults (BCC Mark II), a productivity shock triggers ample and persistent uctuations (if the intensity of choice of the lender is suciently high), a feature that is absent in BCC Mark I (and of course in RCC).

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  • Domenico Delli Gatti & Gabriele Iannotta, 2022. "Behavioural credit cycles," DISCE - Working Papers del Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza def119, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE).
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    Credit Market; Collateral Constraints; Heterogeneous Expectations; Bankruptcy; Boom Bust Cycles.;
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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations

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