We study how credit supply shocks in the US, the euro area and Japan are transmitted to other economies. We use the recently-developed GVAR approach to model financial variables jointly with macroeconomic variables in 33 countries for the period 1983-2009. We experiment with inter-country links...

We study how credit supply shocks in the US, the euro area and Japan are transmitted to other economies. We use the recently-developed GVAR approach to model financial variables jointly with macroeconomic variables in 33 countries for the period 1983-2009. We experiment with inter-country links...

This paper investigates why the effects of money on output are asymmetric. We show that Cover's (1992) methodology is a special case of a more general model which enables us to distinguish between two sets of theories consistent with the output asymmetries: a convex aggregate supply, and a...