The interest in how financial conditions affect real economic activity has grown since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), not least because some of the mechanisms at play in the financial sector may have changed. We shed light on this issue by examining the empirical relationship between global...

Utilizing bank-level data and a Mixed Frequency VAR approach, this study examines the effects of a shock at the economic sentiment on European banks’ profitability during the 1995–2019 period. We find that a greater shock in economic sentiment leads to a persistent and gradually amplified...

We make four contributions in this paper. First, we provide a core of macroeconomic time series usable for systematic research on China. Second, we document, through various empirical methods, the robust findings about striking patterns of trend and cycle. Third, we build a theoretical model...