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Firm-Bank Macro ABM Model

How do heterogeneous firm balance sheets, bank lending networks, and capital buffer constraints turn idiosyncratic firm defaults into aggregate credit crunches and business-cycle fluctuations?

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Primary and official sources

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  1. [S1] International Monetary Fund

    Bookstaber et al. (2018) -- IMF ABBA framework with firm-bank contagion as a core systemic risk channel

    Primary - International Monetary Fund

Reference sources

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  1. [S2] Reference

    Delli Gatti et al. (2005) -- first firm-bank network ABM with endogenous business cycles from balance-sheet interactions

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  2. [S3] Reference

    Delli Gatti et al. (2010) -- extended framework with firm entry/exit, bankruptcy cascades, and fat-tailed output fluctuations

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  3. [S4] Reference

    Cincotti et al. (2010) -- Eurace credit module: full-scale agent-based macroeconomy with detailed firm-bank credit channel

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  4. [S5] Reference

    Ashraf et al. (2017) -- banking ABM calibrated to developing economies, monetary policy transmission through heterogeneous banks

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  5. [S6] Reference

    Battiston et al. (2012) -- network topology and systemic risk: too-connected-to-fail analysis in firm-bank networks

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