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This article aims at estimating leading indicators of the American economy with financial variables. We use two types of hidden Markov chains models, a quantitative one (Krolzig (1997)) and a qualitative one (Gregoir and Lenglart (2000)). These models provide a robust and reliable framework to...
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The 2007 sub-prime crisis in the United States, prolonged by a severe economic recession spread over many countries …
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growth states. In addition, we suggest a possible range of values for house price de.ation which may trigger a recession the …
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We study the effect of financial shocks in labor market dynamics. We build a model with two types of labor, two types of capital and both search and financial frictions. We find that financial shocks, modeled as exogenous disturbances to the borrowing constraint of firms, can generate realistic...
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provide a readable and leading signal of recession by combining information according to two combining schemes over the sample … 1970-2006. First we average recession probabilities and second we linearly combine variables through a dynamic factor model … that financial variables would have been helpful in predicting a recession signal as September 2007, that is around six …
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This paper provides an analysis of co-movements between real and financial variables in three new EU member countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) and the euro area. It focuses on the co-movement between real credit granted to firms and real industrial output on the one hand, and...
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This article puts forward a framework based primarily on probabilistic tools to analyse the nature of housing loan cycles in France. The continued high growth rate of housing loans may indeed raise concerns as to the duration and determinants of the cycle which currently prevails. The results...
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magnitude for the Great Recession, while its rational expectations counterpart predicts a counter-factual expansion. In addition …
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The surge in capital inflows towards emerging countries after 2009 has revived the debate about capital controls. This paper analyzes some of the international implications of restrictions on capital inflows. Focusing on a sample of Latin-American countries, we use detailed balance of payments...
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The paper contributes to the literature on the convergence of financial systems in the euro area by estimating household credit demand in individual countries. Using the ARDL framework advocated notably by Pesaran et al. (1999), the paper provides evidence on the convergence of long run credit...
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