Artículo de revista ; In 2019 Q3, according to the Bank Lending Survey, loan supply in Spain remained generally stable, with only credit standards for consumer credit to households tightening slightly, and terms and conditions on new loans for house purchase easing somewhat. By contrast, in the...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses the link between the changes in and the drivers of inflation in a broad range of advanced economies, with special emphasis on those of the euro area. Inflation rates are seen to be highly synchronised across countries, especially in the euro area...

Artículo de revista ; According to the Bank Lending Survey, during 2019 Q4, credit standards tightened slightly for all categories of lending in Spain, whereas this only affected consumer credit and other lending to households in the euro area. In this segment, the general terms and conditions...

Este documento describe los principales canales de transmisión de los efectos desbordamiento (spillovers) de las políticas fiscales nacionales a otros países de la zona del euro y analiza su magnitud utilizando diferentes modelos. En el contexto de la Unión Económica y Monetaria (UEM), los...

Artículo de revista ; According to the Bank Lending Survey, in 2020 Q1 credit supply contracted slightly in both Spain and the euro area, affecting practically all the segments analysed. Demand for loans continued to fall in Spain across the board, although firms’ demand fell at a slower rate...

Artículo de revista ; This article shows that collective investment undertakings (CIUs) have grown notably in recent years, both in Spain and other European countries. These developments have come in step with greater sector concentration and a rising percentage of assets managed by entities...

Artículo de revista ; The latest Bank Lending Survey results show a widespread contraction of credit supply both in Spain and in the euro area in 2020 Q3, which would be linked to increased risk perception. On the demand side, demand from firms fell in both Spain and the euro area following the...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses agents’ perception of the period of low inflation in recent years, in the context of a model in which these agents form their expectations on the basis of simple forecasting rules. The approach used allows a distinction to be drawn between which...

Artículo de revista ; The European Central Bank’s and the Federal Reserve’s announcements of unconventional monetary policies have contributed to significantly reducing market perceptions of the probability of extreme macro-financial events. This phenomenon has arisen in periods of intense...

Este artículo introduce una nueva clase de modelos de vectores autorregresivos con parámetros cambiantes en el tiempo (TVP-VAR). En los modelos propuestos, se permite que las innovaciones estructurales puedan influir en la dinámica de sus coeficientes. También se proporciona un algoritmo de...