Liquidity Flows and Fragility of Business Enterprises

UCSD Economics Discussion Paper 99-07R

29 Pages Posted: 23 Apr 2001

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Wouter J. den Haan

University of Amsterdam; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Tinbergen Institute

Garey Ramey

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics

Joel Watson

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics

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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

Suggested Citation

Den Haan, Wouter J. and Ramey, Garey and Watson, Joel, Liquidity Flows and Fragility of Business Enterprises (December 2000). UCSD Economics Discussion Paper 99-07R, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=256057 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.256057

Wouter J. Den Haan

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