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This paper surveys the literature on the linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes. It focuses on three major questions. First, what are the basic theoretical linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes? Second, what is the empirical evidence supporting these...
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changes in financial intermediaries' balance sheets for the supply of credit, liquidity and asset prices, and, consequently …
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The rapid increase in credit in an economy is now commonly perceived to be one of the leading indicators of financial … policy response has been to focus on the ratio of private sector credit to GDP for an economy, observing, in particular …-state relationship between private sector credit and GDP in the case of Ireland, a country which, even by international standards …
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global credit gap, while global credit growth consistently and significantly increases the probability of a future banking …
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of other determinants of expansions in credit to income and test whether the causal relationships are sensitive to … different measures of credit. We find that top income shares significantly affect future credit to income of the private … household sector. The test statistics reveal that the effect of top income shares is weaker for bank credit to the private non …
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question, we identify the compositional changes in banks’ supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …
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To study the impact of macroprudential policy on credit supply cycles and real effects, we analyze dynamic provisioning … differentially. We find that dynamic provisioning smooths credit supply cycles and, in bad times, supports firm performance. A 1 … percentage point increase in capital buffers extends credit to firms by 9 percentage points, increasing firm employment (6 …
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We evaluate the ECB’s monetary policy strategy against the underlying economic structure of the euro area economy, in normal times and in times of severe financial dislocations. We show that in the years preceding the financial crisis that started in 2007 the strategy was successful at...
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The credit increased expressive and continuously throughout the Lula government, even after the 2008 crisis. This study … legislation as well as financial innovations, in a favorable macroeconomic context, affected credit and contributed to explain the … increase of supply of credit with free resources between 2004 and 2008. In 2009 and 2010 deliberate government decision to …
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For more than seven years interest rates have remained on historically low levels. Yet both credit growth and the … structural factors and policies that dampen the risk of escalating prices and credit expansion on the German housing market. …
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