Recent studies show that uncertainty shocks have quantitatively important effects on the real economy. This paper examines one particular channel at work: the supply of credit. It presents a model in which a bank, even if managed by risk-neutral shareholders and subject to limited liability, can...

We construct a measure of Euro area cyclical effficiency, following the approach developed in Galí, Gertler and López-Salido (2002).Our measure -wich we call “the gap”- corresponds to the inverse of price over social marginal cost. Here we present a time series of this gap for the Euro...

Algunos trabajos han mostrado que la efectividad de la política monetaria depende, en gran medida, de las expectativas que el Mercado tiene de las futuras acciones de política. Este documento propone un marco econométrico que determina el efecto del ciclo económico sobre estas futuras...