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This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for …
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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 …
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beyond other better-known early warning indicators, such as credit booms. This predictive power, however, only holds in … the short-term popularity benefits of weak credit booms rather than implementing politically costly corrective policies …
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random and therefore create liquidity risk, which in turn determines the supply of credit and the money multiplier. We study … important role of disruptions in interbank markets, followed by a persistent credit demand shock. …
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. Total external debt (public and private) and domestic credit are also included through 2013. This combination gives a broad …
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Liquidity production is a central role of banks. We show that, under idealized conditions, high leverage is optimal for banks when there is a market premium for (socially valuable) liquid financial claims and no deviations from Modigliani and Miller (1958) due to agency problems, deposit...
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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 … half of the twentieth century as shown by a decoupling of money and credit aggregates. We show for the first time how …
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This paper studies the limitations of monetary policy transmission within a credit channel frame- work. We show that …, under certain circumstances, the credit channel transmission mechanism fails in that liquidity injections by the central … bank into the banking sector are hoarded and not lent out. We use the term 'credit traps' to describe such situations and …
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Fire sales are forced sales of assets in which high-valuation bidders are sidelined, typically due to debt overhang problems afflicting many specialist bidders simultaneously. We overview theoretical and empirical research on asset fire sales, which shows how they can arise, how they can lead to...
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-run historical work has uncovered a range of important stylized facts concerning financial instability and the role of credit in …
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