This paper analyzes the business cycle behavior of the corporate debt structure and its interaction with economic recovery. The debt structure is measured as the share of bonds in the total credit to non-financial corporations for a quarterly panel of twenty five economies over the period...

La crise récente a souligné la nécessité de mieux comprendre les liens entre les marchés financiers et les cycles économiques. Cette Lettre présente les résultats d’une recherche sur le rôle de la composition de la dette des entreprises. L’étude de 93 épisodes de récession dans...

Lorsque Shinzo Abe se lance dans la campagne des législatives à l’automne 2012, le PIB vient d’enregistrer deux trimestres consécutifs de recul, l’investissement des entreprises se contracte dans un contexte de demande intérieure et extérieure peu dynamique, la lente érosion des prix...

This paper evaluates the impact of all ECB unconventional monetary policies implemented between 2007 and 2012 on bank and government borrowing costs. We employ event-based regressions to measure the effect of each policy. The borrowing conditions for banks are represented by money market spreads...

This paper evaluates the impact of unconventional and conventional monetary policies in the U.S. on the Libor-OIS spread, long-term interest rates and long-term inflation expectations. To this purpose we investigate the behavior of selected asset yields on the days of monetary policy...

On 4 March 2011, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum and the National Bank of Poland jointly organised a conference on the theme of: "Monetary Policy after the Crisis". Following a call for papers with a large number of submissions, the scientific committee selected 9 papers, which...

This paper incorporates a small and time-varying “disaster risk” à la Gourio (2012) in a New Keynesian model. A change in the probability of disaster may affect macroeconomic quantities and asset prices. In particular, a higher risk is sufficient to generate a recession without effective...

Les tensions sur le marché de la dette souveraine, le processus de nettoyage du bilan des banques et les signes de récession apparus fin 2011 ont obligé la Banque centrale européenne à mettre en œuvre une série de mesures non-conventionnelles d'ampleur de plus en plus importante. Ces...

To quantify the impacts of immigration on the Japanese economy, we present a large-scale numerical dynamic equilibrium model with OLG and a total of 16 countries and regions, both those that are industrialized including Japan, the U.S. and EU, and developing countries China, Brazil, the...