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 …

subset was offered a simplified procedure to purchase a household connection on credit (at a zero percent interest rate … treatment group, despite the financial cost of the connection. Our results suggest that facilitating access to credit for …

We study a dynamic economy where credit is limited by insufficient collateral and, as a result, investment and output … are too low. In this environment, changes in investor sentiment or market expectations can give rise to credit bubbles …, that is, expansions in credit that are backed not by expectations of future profits (i.e. fundamental collateral), but …

, the now infamous credit to GDP chart. We compare the conclusions reached in the literature after the crisis with the … results that could have been drawn from an ex ante analysis. We show that, even though credit affects the business cycle in …

ever before as measured by importance of credit in the economy. I term this long-run evolution “The Great Leveraging” and …

This paper compares the behavior of Euro-Area (EA) banks’ credit and reserves with those of US banks following … substantially higher than previously believed, in the EA). The paper shows that, although the behavior of banks’ credit following … differences in the relative importance of banking credit within the total amount of credit intermediated through banks and bond …

importance of money versus credit contraction in the propagation of this policy error to the wider economy and ultimately price …

account for 12% of GDP variance and real house prices for 9%). Shocks to the term spread or to leverage (credit-to-GDP ratio …

changes in real GDP, the stock market, country credit ratings, and the exchange rate. We explore the linkages between these …