This paper studies episodes in which aggregate bank credit contracts alongside expanding economic activity-credit …--on average, they occur every five years. By comparison, banking crises take place every eight years on average. Credit reversals …

In this paper the authors present an agent-based model of a credit network economy. The artificial economy includes … market, the labor market, the credit market and the housing market. A set of computational experiments, based on numerical … conditions required by the banking system to grant a mortgage. The authors find that easier access to credit inflates housing …

This paper investigates the housing and mortgage markets by means of an agent-based macroeconomic model of a credit … households’ creditworthiness conditions required by banks in order to grant a mortgage. Results show that easier access to credit …