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is evidence for interdependency between recessions and banking crises using both non-parametric tests and unconditional …It is widely suggested that there is some relationship between banking crises and recessions. We assess whether there … predict banking crises and recessions and if these variables can explain the previously observed interdependence. Inclusion of …
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comprehensive real-time forecasting exercise for recessions in the US. Moreover, we propose a novel smooth transition modelling …
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The equity premium follows a pronounced v-shape pattern around the beginning of recessions. It sharply drops into … negative territory just before business cycle peaks and then strongly recovers as the recession unfolds. Recessions are … preceded by an inverted yield curve. Thus probit models using the term spread as predictor time the beginning of recessions …
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Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is...
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This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
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For the timely detection of business-cycle turning points we suggest to use mediumsized linear systems (subset VARs with automated zero restrictions) to forecast the relevant underlying variables, and to derive the probability of the turning point from the forecast density as the probability...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to enormous data movements that strongly affect parameters and forecasts from standard VARs. To address these issues, we propose VAR models with outlier-augmented stochastic volatility (SV) that combine transitory and persistent changes in volatility. The resulting...
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The German economy is an important economic driver in the Euro-area in terms of gross domestic product, labour force and international integration. We provide a state of the art estimate of the German output gap between 1995 and 2022 and present a nowcasting scheme that accurately predicts the...
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. Crises and recessions often occur independently of domestic leverage, making the credit-to-GDP gap a deficient early … sentiment approximated by several measures of corporate securities issuance are highly predictive of banking crises and … recessions. Deviations in equity issuance from historical averages also help to explain economic activity over the business cycle …
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Activities of international banks have been at the core of discussions on the causes and effects of the international financial crisis. Yet, we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through international banks, including the reasons for...
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