The Financial Accelerator: Evidence using a procedure of Structural Model Design

Roger Hammersland and Dag Henning Jacobsen ()
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Dag Henning Jacobsen: Statistics Norway, https://www.ssb.no/en/forskning/ansatte

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Abstract: We find empirical evidence of a financial accelerator using a data based procedure of Structural Model Design. Credit to firms, asset prices and aggregate economic activity interact over the business cycle in our empirical model of a dynamic economy. Furthermore, the interdependence between credit and asset prices creates a mechanism by which the effects of shocks persist and amplify. However, while innovations to asset prices and credit do cause short-run movements in production, and while real activity spurs credit, such innovations do not precede real economy movements in the long run. Hence, there obviously is a case for Modigliani-Miller in the long run.

Keywords: Financial variables and the real economy; The Financial Accelerator; Business fluctuations; Structural vector Error Correction modeling; Identification; Cointegration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 C32 C50 C51 C53 E44 E51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12
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