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Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870-2008
Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The crisis of the advanced economies in 2008-09 has focused new attention on money and credit fluctuations, financial crises, and policy responses. We study the behavior of money, credit, and macroeconomic indicators over the long run based on a new historical dataset for 14 countries over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636377
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Credit, Financial Stability, and the Macroeconomy
Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213304
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Betting the House
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145419
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The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks’ balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083232
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Money and Liquidity in Financial Markets
Nyborg, Kjell G; Östberg, Per - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We argue that there is a connection between the interbank market for liquidity and the broader financial markets, which … has its basis in demand for liquidity by banks. Tightness in the interbank market for liquidity leads banks to engage in … what we term "liquidity pull-back," which involves selling financial assets either by banks directly or by levered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550326
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Financial Stability Policies for Shadow Banking
Adrian, Tobias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper explores financial stability policies for the shadow banking system. I tie policy options to economic mechanisms for shadow banking that have been documented in the literature. I then illustrate the role of shadow bank policies using three examples: agency mortgage real estate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186633
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Gambling for resurrection in Iceland: the rise and fall of the banks
Baldursson, Fridrik Mar; Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
liquidity until their collapse. An official report (SIC, 2010) has, however, exposed severe weaknesses in the banks’ assets and … borrowers, while they should have been deleveraging and securing their liquidity positions in foreign currency. The banks also … before the collapse of October 2008 the banks all reported strong liquidity positions. These reports were misleading, but we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084274
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Two Monetary Tools: Interest Rates and Haircuts
Ashcraft, Adam; Garleanu, Nicolae Bogdan; Pedersen, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We study a production economy with multiple sectors financed by issuing securities to agents who face capital constraints. Binding capital constraints propagate business cycles, and a reduction of the interest rate can increase the required return of high-haircut assets since it can increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642875
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Sizing Up Repo
Krishnamurthy, Arvind; Nagel, Stefan; Orlov, Dmitry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
suggests that the contraction in repo led dealers to take defensive actions, given their own capital and liquidity problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084360
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Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations
Peersman, Gert; Wagner, Wolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary policy innovations account for more than 30 percent of U.S. output variation. The dynamic effects, however, depend on the type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a...
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