This paper evaluates the performance of structural VAR models in estimating the impact of credit supply shocks. In a … simple Monte-Carlo experiment, we generate data from a DSGE model that features bank lending and credit supply shocks and use … instrumental variable procedure to estimate the impact of the credit shock performs well and is relatively robust to measurement …

This paper evaluates the performance of a variety of structural VAR models in estimating the impact of credit supply …, on average, that credit supply shocks that raise spreads by 10 basis points reduce GDP growth and inflation by 1% after …