Credit prices vs. credit quantities as predictors of economic activity in Europe: which tell a better story?

Alfred Guender

No wp2017-6, Bank of Estonia Working Papers from Bank of Estonia

Abstract: This paper examines the role of credit providers in the EMU and assesses the effects of credit spreads and credit quantities on economic activity. Movements in credit spreads are far more successful than movements in the external finance mix in predicting near-term changes in real economic activity in ten EMU countries. However, the forecasting performance of the three credit spreads evaluated in this paper is uneven. A risk premium extracted from individual corporate bond yields predicts three measures of economic activity fairly well in Germany and Southern Europe. Two other credit spreads, the ‘spread’ and the ‘ECB-spread’, have predictive power for some measures of economic activity but they fail to predict consistently across either a range of economic indicators or countries

Keywords: credit spreads; finance mix; bank vs open market debt; economic activity; financial crises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E3 E4 G1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-09-11, Revised 2017-09-11
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