Working Paper: NBER ID: w15432
Authors: Enrique G. Mendoza; Vincenzo Quadrini
Abstract: Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First, more than half of the rise in net borrowing of the U.S. nonfinancial sectors since the mid 1980s has been financed by foreign lending. Second, the collapse of the U.S. housing and mortgage-backed-securities markets had worldwide effects on financial institutions and asset markets. Using an open-economy model where financial intermediaries play a central role, we show that financial integration leads to a sharp rise in net credit in the most financially developed country and leads to large asset price spillovers of country-specific shocks to bank capital. The impact of these shocks on asset prices are amplified by bank capital requirements based on mark-to-market.
Keywords: Financial Globalization; Financial Crises; Contagion
JEL Codes: E44; F36; F41
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| financial globalization (F30) | leverage (G24) |
| credit frictions (E51) | asset prices (G19) |
| leverage (G24) | asset prices (G19) |
| financial globalization (F30) | asset prices (G19) |