Economic models

• Business Cycle Effects of Credit Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults

  Staff Working Paper 2013-19 M. Hashem Pesaran, TengTeng Xu

  This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the relationship between credit shocks, firm defaults and volatility, and to study the impact of credit shocks on business cycle dynamics.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Credit and credit aggregates, Economic models, Financial institutions JEL Code(s): E, E3, E32, E4, E44, G, G2, G21

• Booms and Busts in House Prices Explained by Constraints in Housing Supply

  Staff Working Paper 2013-18 Narayan Bulusu, Jefferson Duarte, Carles Vergara-Alert

  We study the importance of supply constraints in explaining the heterogeneity in house price cycles across geographies in the United States.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Asset pricing, Economic models JEL Code(s): R, R3, R31