We study the effects of loans and mortgages securitization on business cycles by using a large-scale agent-based stockâflow consistent macroeconomic model and simulator. We enriched the model by including a financial vehicle corporation, which buys loans and mortgages from banks and issues asset-backed securities (ABSs) and mortgage-backed...
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2018 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: April 14, 2023
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2019 (v1)Publication
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2020 (v1)Publication
The paper presents an agent-based model of a credit economy which includes a securitisation process and a bailout mechanism for bank bankruptcies. Within this framework, banks are able to sell mortgages to a financial vehicle corporation, which finances its activity by creating mortgage-backed securities and selling them to a mutual fund. In...
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2022 (v1)Publication
We are entering the third decade of the twenty-first century with profound uncertainties and crucial challenges for the world economy. Phenomena like climate change, digital transformation, migration, demographic changes, and the ongoing COVID pandemic need to be understood and promptly addressed. We argue that the agentbased approach in...
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2018 (v1)Publication
In this paper, we investigate the effects on the economy of a feed-in tariff policy mechanism aimed to foster investments in renewable energy production capacity. To this purpose, we employ an enriched version of the agent-based Eurace macroeconomic model, where we have included an energy sector with a fossil-fuel power producer as well as a...
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2019 (v1)Publication
We investigate appropriate banking and regulatory policies aimed at pushing the banking sector to shift from speculative lending, the cause of asset bubbles and economic crises, to green investments lending, so as to foster the transition to a more energy efficient production technology. For this purpose, we consider an enriched version of the...
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