Uncertainty and business cycles: exogenous impulse or endogenous response?

SC Ludvigson, S Ma, S Ng - American Economic Journal …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
Uncertainty about the future rises in recessions. But is uncertainty a source of business
cycles or an endogenous response to them, and does the type of uncertainty matter? We …

Capital reallocation

AL Eisfeldt, Y Shi - Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Capital reallocation is procyclical, despite measured productive reallocative opportunities
being acyclical or even countercyclical. This article reviews the advances in the literature …

A macroeconomic model with financially constrained producers and intermediaries

V Elenev, T Landvoigt, S Van Nieuwerburgh - Econometrica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
How much capital should financial intermediaries hold? We propose a general equilibrium
model with a financial sector that makes risky long‐term loans to firms, funded by deposits …

Constrained-efficient capital reallocation

A Lanteri, AA Rampini - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We characterize efficiency in an equilibrium model of investment and capital reallocation
with heterogeneous firms facing collateral constraints. The model features two types of …

The misallocation of finance

TM Whited, J Zhao - The journal of finance, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate real losses arising from the cross‐sectional misallocation of financial liabilities.
Extending a production‐based framework of misallocation measurement to the liabilities …

Can the construction of smart cities promote the capital allocation efficiency: Evidence from China

S Cui, G Li, J Liu - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on the panel data of 284 prefecture-level city in China from 2005 to 2019, this paper
measures the urban capital allocation efficiency and takes smart city construction as a quasi …

The market for used capital: Endogenous irreversibility and reallocation over the business cycle

A Lanteri - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
This paper studies the business-cycle dynamics of secondary markets for physical capital
and their effects on the macroeconomy. In the data, both capital reallocation and the price of …

The collateralizability premium

H Ai, JE Li, K Li, C Schlag - The Review of Financial Studies, 2020 - academic.oup.com
A common prediction of macroeconomic models of credit market frictions is that the tightness
of financial constraints is countercyclical. Theory suggests a negative collateralizability …

Financial intermediation and informational efficiency: Predicting business cycles

U Chatterjee, JJ French, C Gurdgiev… - International Review of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Theory posits that financial intermediation (FI) spurs economic growth and supports
financial system stability by reducing informational asymmetries and agency problems. Most …

Identification of the contagion effect in China's financial market uncertainties: A multiscale and dynamic perspective

X Wang, X Xu, X Rong, S Xuan - International Review of Economics & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Uncertainty is a crucial source of financial market volatility. Unlike previous research
considering uncertainty from holistic and static viewpoints, we investigate the contagion …