What explains the post-crisis slowdown in bank credit to private sector in the South-East European economies? We try to … answer this question, by comparing the actual credit growth to the fundamental and equilibrium growths. The fundamental … economy being in medium-term equilibrium. Results suggest that the slowdown reflects both return of the credit activity to its …

This paper proposes a semi-structural approach to identifying excessive household credit developments. Using an … overlapping generations model, a normative trend level for the real household credit stock is derived that depends on four …-aged cohort, and institutional quality. Semi-structural household credit gaps are obtained as deviations of the real household …

The US credit boom has been identified as one of the causes of the global financial crisis and the resulting debt … overhang is seen as the primary reason for the weak economic recovery. Most of the existing literature links the credit boom to … non-financial private sector had been originated by shadow banks. Consequently, dampening credit creation by the …

In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, a number of European OECD countries introduced credit mediation schemes …, as a new, often temporary mechanism to help ease access to finance by SMEs. This report investigates the nature of credit … mediation and credit review schemes implemented in selected countries (i.e. Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and Spain) in the …

. High unofficial euroisation is a source of indirect credit risk for countries with their own national legal tender, which …