This article examines the extent to which housing prices affect the balance sheets and borrowing and consumption decisions of households in the Czech Republic and indirectly also their ability to repay their debts. Empirical results were obtained by applying the Propensity Score Matching (PSM)...

This article aims to characterise the effect of demand and supply factors on bank loans to non-financial corporations and to obtain a forecasting model for the main variables linked with corporate loans. Our estimate of credit supply conditions in the Czech Republic echoes the results of the...

As the two-way interaction between the financial sector and the government sector grows, so does the dependence between financial stability and fiscal stability. The high creditworthiness of government debt represents both a significant source of certainty for the financial system and a solid...

The short-run increase in prices following an unexpected tightening of monetary policy represents a frequently reported puzzle. Yet the puzzle is surprisingly easy to explain away when all published models are quantitatively reviewed. We collect about 1,000 point estimates of impulse responses...

We conduct a theoretical and empirical investigation of the influence which the financial condition of a multinational bank group may have on the lending rates of its affiliates. We first propose a model of bank lending to risky clients in which the implicit opportunity costs of lending by a...