Working Papers
“Borrowing to Save and Investment Dynamics“, January 2020. Revise & Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
During the Great Recession, investment declined more among firms whose indebtedness increased. Instead of investing, they expanded their stock of safe assets. In a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms, I show that “borrowing to save” can simultaneously generate a sharp downturn and a slow recovery.
“The Information Driven Financial Accelerator” (with Antonio Falato), November 2020
We show that noisy information in corporate debt markets can generate boom-bust credit cycles in a quantitative business cycle model.
“Expectations and Credit Slumps” (with Antonio Falato), March 2022
Why was bank lending slow to recover after the 2008 financial crisis? Using microdata and a quantitative model, we argue that over-extrapolation by banks played an important role.