Frömmel, Michael; Schmidt, Torsten - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2006
We examine the dynamics of bank lending to the private sector for countries of theEuro area by applying a Markov switching error correction model. We identify forBelgium, Germany, Ireland and Portugal stable, mean reverting regimes andunstable regimes with no tendency to return to the long term...