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 …

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 …

This paper studies the role of credit in the business cycle, with a focus on private credit overhang. Based on a study …; and for both types of recession, more credit-intensive expansions tend to be followed by deeper recessions and slower … controls and their lags. Then we study how past credit accumulation impacts the behavior of not only output but also other key …

others blow over. We demonstrate that what makes some bubbles more dangerous than others is credit. When fueled by credit … slower recoveries. Credit-financed housing price bubbles have emerged as a particularly dangerous phenomenon. …