Liquidity Flows and Fragility of Business Enterprises
UCSD Economics Discussion Paper 99-07R
29 Pages Posted: 23 Apr 2001
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Liquidity Flows and Fragility of Business Enterprises
Liquidity Flows and Fragility of Business Enterprises
Date Written: December 2000
Abstract
This paper develops a macroeconomic model in which investable assets flow to entrepreneurs through long-term relationships with lenders. Low asset flows cause relationships to break up due to insufficient liquidity. Multiple Pareto ranked steady states emerge from complementarity between financial intermediation, reflected by the number of relationships, and households' incentives to provide assets. This complementarity also serves as a mechanism for propagating aggregate shocks. Financial collapse may become inescapable if a shock destroys sufficiently many relationships.
Keywords: Credit Market Relationships, Coordination Failure, Propagation of Shocks, Financial Collapse
JEL Classification: E32, E44
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