The experience of the Asian currency and financial crisis in the years 1997-8 encouraged economists to develop some open economy nonlinear macro models. Such models allow for nonlinearities – studying the effects of contractionary currency devaluation in contrast to the standard model of...

This paper introduces a Banking-Macro Model and estimates the linkages through a Multi-Regime VAR (MRVAR). We introduce a dynamic model which is akin to the Brunnermeier and Sannikov (BS) model (2010). The banking sector is exposed to instability due to adverse movements of asset prices and...