Gerba, Eddie (2013) Reconnecting investment to stock markets: the role of corporate net worth evaluation. Working papers. Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Rochester, USA.
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Abstract
Following recent studies by the Bank of England that the low financial market confidence and low expectations about private sector profits over the next three years has lead to unusually low price-to-book ratios, we incorporate a stock market mechanism in a general equilibrium framework. More specifically, we introduce an endogenous wedge between market and book value of capital, and make investment a function of it in a standard financial accelerator model. The price wedge is driven by an information set containing expectations about the future state of the economy. The result is that the impulse responses to exogenous disturbances are on average two to three times more volatile than in the benchmark financial accelerator model. More- over, the model improves the matching of firm variables and financial rates to US data compared to the standard financial accelerator model. We also derive a model based quadratic loss function and measure the extent to which monetary policy can feed a bubble by further loosening the credit market frictions that entrepreneurs face. A policy that explicitly targets stock market developments can be shown to improve welfare in terms of minimizing the consumption losses of consumers, even when we account for incomplete information of central bankers regarding the current state of the economy.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.ssrn.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author |
| Divisions: | European Institute |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| JEL classification: | E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E4 - Money and Interest Rates > E44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit > E52 - Monetary Policy (Targets, Instruments, and Effects) G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G32 - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2014 09:48 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 19:11 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/56396 |
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