【Macro Seminar】Corporate Debt Maturity Matters For Monetary Policy
2024/02/27
研討會日期 : 2024-02-27
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Matthias Meier
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Matthias Meier received his PhD from Universität Bonn in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim. His research interests are Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Economics, and Econometrics.
演講摘要 : We provide novel empirical evidence that firms' investment is more responsive to monetary policy when a higher fraction of their debt matures. In a heterogeneous firm New Keynesian model with financial frictions and endogenous debt maturity, two channels explain this finding: (1.) Firms with more maturing debt have larger rollover needs and are therefore more exposed to fluctuations in the real interest rate (roll-over risk). (2.) These firms also have higher default risk and therefore react more strongly to changes in the real burden of outstanding nominal debt (debt overhang). In comparison to existing models, we show that a model which accounts for the maturity of debt and its distribution across firms implies larger aggregate effects of monetary policy.
