Credit, Asset Prices and Business Cycles at the Global Level

Stephane Dees

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Abstract: This paper assesses the role of financial variables in real economic fluctuations, in view of analysing the link between financial cycles and business cycles at the global level. A Global VAR modelling approach, which has been proved suitable for modelling country or regional linkages, is used to first assess the contribution of credit and asset price variables to real economic activity in a number of countries and regions. The GVAR model is based on 38 countries estimated over 1987-2013. An analysis on a sample excluding the post-financial crisis period is also provided to check whether financial variables have gained importance in explaining business cycle fluctuations over the recent past. In a second step, an attempt to identify broader financial shocks through sign restrictions is given in order to illustrate how financial and business cycles could be related. Overall, the paper shows that the importance of credit and asset price variables in explaining real economic fluctuations is relatively large, but has not significantly increased since the global financial crisis. The international transmission of financial shocks on business cycle fluctuations also tends to be large and persistent.

Keywords: transmission of shocks; financial cycle; business cycle; GVAR model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E37 E44 E51 F47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10
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Journal Article: Credit, asset prices and business cycles at the global level (2016)
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Working Paper: Credit, asset prices and business cycles at the global level (2016)
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