Cross-Border Banking and Business Cycles in Asymmetric Currency Unions

Lena Dräger and Christian Proaño

No 201501, Macroeconomics and Finance Series from University of Hamburg, Department of Socioeconomics

Abstract: Against the background of the recent housing boom and bust in countries such as Spain and Ireland, we investigate in this paper the macroeconomic consequences of cross-border banking in monetary unions such as the euro area. For this purpose, we incorporate in an otherwise standard two-region monetary union DSGE model a banking sector module along the lines of Gerali et al. (2010), accounting for borrowing constraints of entrepreneurs and an internal constraint on the bank’s leverage ratio. We illustrate in particular how different lending standards within the monetary union can translate into destabilizing spill-over effects between the regions, which can in turn result in a higher macroeconomic volatility. This mechanism is modelled by letting the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio that banks demand of entrepreneurs depend on either regional productivity shocks or on the productivity shock from one dominating region. Thereby, we demonstrate a channel through which the financial sector may have exacerbated the emergence of macroeconomic imbalances within the euro area. Additionally, we show the effects of a monetary policy rule augmented by the loan rate spread as in Cúrdia and Woodford (2010) in a two-country monetary union context.

Keywords: Cross-border banking; euro area; monetary unions; DSGE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 F34 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2015-03
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Working Paper: Cross-Border Banking and Business Cycles in Asymmetric Currency Unions (2016)
Working Paper: Cross-border banking and business cycles in asymmetric currency unions (2015)
Working Paper: Cross-border banking and business cycles in asymmetric currency unions (2015)
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