Reichlin, Lucrezia; Ricco, Giovanni; Hasenzagl, Thomas - 2020 - This version: 30th October 2019
leverage. We find that (i) although the spreads correlate with the left tail of the conditional distribution of GDP growth …, they provide limited advanced information on growth vulnerability; (ii) nonfinancial leverage provides a leading signal for … the left quantile of the GDP growth distribution in the 2008 recession; (iii) measures of excess leverage conceptually …