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To study the impact of macroprudential policy on credit supply cycles and real effects, we analyze dynamic provisioning … differentially. We find that dynamic provisioning smooths credit supply cycles and, in bad times, supports firm performance. A 1 … percentage point increase in capital buffers extends credit to firms by 9 percentage points, increasing firm employment (6 …
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question, we identify the compositional changes in banks’ supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …
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Economic theory traditionally suggests that monetary policy can influence the business cycle, but not the long-run potential output. Despite well documented theoretical and empirical consensus on money neutrality in the literature, the role of money as an informational variable for monetary...
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Credit boom detection methodologies (such as threshold method) lack robustness as they are based on univariate … detrending analysis and resort to ratios of credit to real activity. I propose a quantitative indicator to detect atypical … behavior of credit from a multivariate system - a monetary VAR. This methodology explicitly accounts for endogenous …
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We evaluate the ECB’s monetary policy strategy against the underlying economic structure of the euro area economy, in normal times and in times of severe financial dislocations. We show that in the years preceding the financial crisis that started in 2007 the strategy was successful at...
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Cash pooling is a bank service that allows corporates to externalise the intra-group cash management, and thus manage their global liquidity effectively with lower costs. Although there is little quantitative information on the significance of the phenomenon, cash pooling appears to have become...
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the European Union member states that have large penetration of bank credit. Building on the model of financially open … increase in private bank credit relative to the gross domestic product (GDP) and the gap between real interest rate and GDP …
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This paper surveys the literature on the linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes. It focuses on three major questions. First, what are the basic theoretical linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes? Second, what is the empirical evidence supporting these...
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changes in financial intermediaries' balance sheets for the supply of credit, liquidity and asset prices, and, consequently …
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behavior of credit by public banks; especially Caixa Econômica Federal and Banco do Brasil. While the growth of banking credit …
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