Period 2 represents the long run. Consumers get a deterministic return on the asset that they own(y), repay their debt (bi;2RL2), realize banks profits (pi;2), and consume (ci;2).We now discuss the consumers’ and banks’ problems in turn.A CONSUMERS AND LOAN DEMANDThe utility of each consumer, indexed byi2[0;1], is given by:u(ci;0)+u(ci;1)+ci;2;(1)where, for simplicity, we assume a unitary discount factor. The period utility function,u(), is astandard CES function:u(c) =c1r1r:(2)The budget constraint can be written as:8>:ci;0=bi;1+(1qi;1)p0;ci;1+bi;1RL1=e+bi;2+(qi;1qi;2)p1+pi;1;ci;2+bi;2RL2=qi;2y+pi;2:(3)Initially, each consumer ownsqi;0=1 unit of the asset, where the price of the asset in periodtis denoted bypt. Consumers can buy or sell the asset in a perfectly competitive market, but theycannot sell it to the lenders and rent it back. As in Jeanne and Korinek (2010b), we assume thatconsumers derive some important benefits from owning the asset.4Note that consumers are iden-tical and, in a symmetric equilibrium, we must haveqi;0=qi;1=qi;2=1.As it is evident from the budget constraint, in order to consume in period 0, consumers need to ei-ther sell a fraction of their assets (1qi;1) or borrow from banks (bi;1). Moreover, each consumer,in period 1, faces a collateral constraint of the form:bi;2qi;1p1;(4)whereqi;1is the quantity of domestic collateral held by the consumer at the beginning of period1.The microfoundation of the collateral constraint follows the spirit of Kiyotaki and Moore (1997).However, for tractability, while in Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) borrowing capacity is an increas