Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications

Economies with imperfect financial market access may experience crises that cause significant economic dislocation. These crises are characterized by the sudden stop of domestic or international credit flows and they are associated with large declines in consumption output relative prices and asset...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Benigno, Gianluca, Chen, Huigang, Rebucci, Alessandro, Young, Eric R.
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Banco Central de Chile 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12580/3880
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
id oai-20.500.12580-3880
record_format dspace
spelling oai-20.500.12580-38802021-04-24T11:15:42Z Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications Benigno, Gianluca Chen, Huigang Rebucci, Alessandro Young, Eric R. DEUDA MERCADO FINANCIERO Economies with imperfect financial market access may experience crises that cause significant economic dislocation. These crises are characterized by the sudden stop of domestic or international credit flows and they are associated with large declines in consumption output relative prices and asset prices. An important question for emerging-market economies is whether in normal times when access to financial markets is unconstrained and plentiful excessive borrowing affects the likelihood and the severity of these crises. This question is important because the policy implications of alternative answers are very different. If there is excessive or inefficient borrowing in good times (that is 'overborrowing') policy should be geared primarily toward addressing the ex ante inefficiency that causes it for example by imposing a tax on capital flows or other forms of capital controls and prudential regulations to reduce the incentives to borrow excessively. 2019-11-01T00:05:19Z 2019-11-01T00:05:19Z 2011 Artículo 978-956-7421-35-0 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12580/3880 eng Series on Central Banking Analysis and Economic Policies no. 16 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ .pdf Sección o Parte de un Documento p. 145-184 application/pdf Banco Central de Chile
institution Banco Central
collection Banco Central
language eng
topic DEUDA
MERCADO FINANCIERO
spellingShingle DEUDA
MERCADO FINANCIERO
Benigno, Gianluca
Chen, Huigang
Rebucci, Alessandro
Young, Eric R.
Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications
description Economies with imperfect financial market access may experience crises that cause significant economic dislocation. These crises are characterized by the sudden stop of domestic or international credit flows and they are associated with large declines in consumption output relative prices and asset prices. An important question for emerging-market economies is whether in normal times when access to financial markets is unconstrained and plentiful excessive borrowing affects the likelihood and the severity of these crises. This question is important because the policy implications of alternative answers are very different. If there is excessive or inefficient borrowing in good times (that is 'overborrowing') policy should be geared primarily toward addressing the ex ante inefficiency that causes it for example by imposing a tax on capital flows or other forms of capital controls and prudential regulations to reduce the incentives to borrow excessively.
format Artículo
author Benigno, Gianluca
Chen, Huigang
Rebucci, Alessandro
Young, Eric R.
author_facet Benigno, Gianluca
Chen, Huigang
Rebucci, Alessandro
Young, Eric R.
author_sort Benigno, Gianluca
title Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications
title_short Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications
title_full Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications
title_fullStr Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications
title_full_unstemmed Revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications
title_sort revisiting overborrowing and its policy implications
publisher Banco Central de Chile
publishDate 2019
url https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12580/3880
work_keys_str_mv AT benignogianluca revisitingoverborrowinganditspolicyimplications
AT chenhuigang revisitingoverborrowinganditspolicyimplications
AT rebuccialessandro revisitingoverborrowinganditspolicyimplications
AT youngericr revisitingoverborrowinganditspolicyimplications
_version_ 1718346370174156800