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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 modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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-bust cycles in housing prices and credit generated by expectations of future macroeconomic developments. First, we find no trade …-off between the traditional goals of monetary policy and leaning against boom-bust cycles. An interest-rate rule that completely … macroeconomic and financial cycles and is welfare improving relative to the estimated rule. Second, counter-cyclical Loan …
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distance, trade, and finance to the US subprime mortgage and Eurozone debt crisis areas. To understand the causes of the cross …
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We estimate a medium scale DSGE model for the Euro area with Limited Asset Market Participation (LAMP). Our results …
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​The paper concentrates on illustrating and assessing central banks' liquidity operations during the crisis that started in August 2007. In addition to the ECB, the central banks of Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Canada and the United States are analyzed. During the...
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The financial crises of 2007-2008 and the subsequent worldwide recession show the importance of exploring the correlation between financial and real crises. Starting from our new estimation of the Italian business cycle (Bartoletto et al., 2017), we analyze the linkage between banking crises and...
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2.8% of euro-area GDP, which corresponds to approximately 250 billion euros. We also find that using a cycle …
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This paper argues that the loose monetary policy of two of the world’s most important financial institutions-the US Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank-were ultimately responsible for the outburst of global financial crisis of 2008 - 09. Unusually low interest rates in 2001 -...
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