The Role of Capital Requirements and Credit Composition in the Transmission of Macroeconomic and Financial Shocks

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
954
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E5, G21, G28
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper builds a general equilibrium model that incorporates banks, financial frictions, default and a capital requirements. Ex-ante heterogeneous households decide how much to save or borrow for the sake of consumption (consumer credit) or the provisi