Youel Rojas

Youel Rojas
Youel Rojas
Especialista en Investigación Económica

Estudios realizados

Bachiller en Economía

Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga (Perú)
2006.

Maestría en Economía y Finanzas

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (España)
2014.

Maestría en Economía

Universidad del Pacífico (Perú)
2009.

Ph. D. in Economics and Finance

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (España)
2022.

Areas of interest

  • Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
  • Monetary Policy and Central Banking
  • International Trade
  • International Finance
  • Environmental Economics

Keywords

  • bank risk-taking
  • financial stability
  • monetary policy
  • TFP

Perfiles académicos:

Youel Rojas holds a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research in macroeconomics covers credit markets, inflation, monetary policy, financial stability, the macroeconomic impacts of climate change, and the role of emerging economies globally.

Main Publications

Unconventional Credit Policy in an Economy with Supply and Demand Credit Frictions.

In this paper we develop a DSGE model where we reconcile credit demand and supply frictions and evaluate the effects of an unconventional credit policy. The credit policy consists on central bank loans to firms that are directly provided by the central bank or through commercial banks and they are guaranteed by the government. Credit supply frictions allow us to mimic a more realistic dynamics of credit after a monetary policy shock. We find that the credit policy diminishes the impact of a negative shock in the economy. Since central bank loans are not subject to the moral hazard problem between bankers and depositors, credit market interventions rise aggregate credit supply. The government guarantees reduce entrepreneurs’ default probability and hence increases aggregate credit demand. In periods of high uncertainty government guarantees’ effects become very significant. Also, when bank loans have a higher seniority than central bank loans, the effectiveness of the credit policy on reducing real fluctuations increases.

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The Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy: A New Approach and Evidence from Peru.

The risk-taking channel of the monetary policy has been extensively studied (see, e.g., Adrian and Song Shin (2010); Borio and Zhu (2012); Jiménez, Ongena, Peydró and Saurina (2014)). Relative to the existing literature, we take a different view on the risk-taking behavior of banks, and rather than focusing on large versus small banks, we focus on how a bank can allocate loans differently across risky markets after a monetary policy shock. First, by using a theoretical model we show that an expansionary monetary policy shock creates the risk-taking channel, by altering a bank's appetite for risk and to rebalance its loans portfolio by issuing more loans in more risky markets relative to lower risky markets. Second, we take our model predictions to the data. We reach identification by using branch-level and province-bank-level data to control for omitted variables. Our branch-level estimation confirms that the sensitivity of lending to MP changes is increasing in the riskiness of borrowers. At higher levels of aggregation, our results hold economical and statistical significance and show robustness that the risk-taking channel of MP has sizable impact on the total lending issued by financial firms.

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