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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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This paper studies the role of credit in the business cycle, with a focus on private credit overhang. Based on a study of the universe of over 200 recession episodes in 14 advanced countries between 1870 and 2008, we document two key facts of the modern business cycle: financial-crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365001
and understudied ways. This paper studies the co-evolution of public and private sector debt in advanced countries since … the expansion of public debt. However, we find evidence that high levels of public debt have tended to exacerbate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010728016
and understudied ways. This paper studies the co-evolution of public and private sector debt in advanced countries since … the expansion of public debt. However, we find evidence that high levels of public debt have tended to exacerbate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084027
Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105367
course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of mortgage lending to households. Household debt to asset ratios have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026939
This paper studies the role of credit in the business cycle, with a focus on private credit overhang. Based on a study of the universe of over 200 recession episodes in 14 advanced countries between 1870 and 2008, we document two key facts of the modern business cycle: financial-crisis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010581412
course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of mortgage lending to households. Household debt to asset ratios have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948836
interact in important and understudied ways. This paper examines the co-evolution of public and private sector debt in advanced … sector credit booms rather than from the expansion of public debt. However, we find evidence that high levels of public debt …) the path of recovery is worse still when a credit-fueled crisis coincides with elevated public debt levels. Recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877944
Partisan conflict and policy uncertainty are frequently invoked as factors contributing to slow post-crisis recoveries. Recent events in Europe provide ample evidence that the political aftershocks of financial crises can be severe. In this paper we study the political fall-out from systemic...
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