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We analyze why the Eurozone crisis increasingly resembles Latin America’s lost decade instead of Asia’s phoenix miracle, emphasizing the roles of the real exchange rate, the external environment, and debt restructuring. In addition, we contrast the adjustment to housing bubbles in Ireland,...
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We analyze why the Eurozone crisis increasingly resembles Latin America’s lost decade instead of Asia’s phoenix miracle, emphasizing the roles of the real exchange rate, the external environment, and debt restructuring. In addition, we contrast the adjustment to housing bubbles in Ireland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786705
question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064522
question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643066
The rapid increase in credit in an economy is now commonly perceived to be one of the leading in- dicators of financial … key policy response has been to focus on the ratio of private sector credit to GDP for an economy, observing, in … steady-state relationship between private sector credit and GDP in the case of Ireland, a country which, even by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873354
What is the marginal effect of an increase in the private sector debt-to-GDP ratio on the probability of a banking crisis? This paper shows that the marginal effect of rising debt levels depends on an economy's external position. When the current account is in surplus or in balance, the marginal...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605576
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984246
question, we identify the compositional changes in banks’ supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141016