The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality

Abstract

Adverse shocks to the economy may be amplified by worsening credit-market conditions-- the financial "accelerator".Theoretically, we interpret the financial accelerator as resulting (mm endogenous changes over the business cycle in the agency costs of lending.An implication of the theory is that, at the onset of a recession.boirowers facing high agency costs should receive a relatively lower share of credit extended (the flight to quality) and hence should account for a proportionally greater part of the decline in economic activity.We review the evidence for these predictions and present new evidence drawn from a panel of large and small manufacturing finns.

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