Financial and Business Cycles in Brazil

January 24, 2017

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Ivo Krznar, and Troy D Matheson. Financial and Business Cycles in Brazil, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

This paper explores the nexus between the financial cycle and business cycle in Brazil. Cycles are estimated using a variety of commonly-used statistical methods and with a small, semistructural model of the Brazilian economy. An advantage of using the model-based approach is that financial and business cycles can be jointly estimated, allowing information from all key economic relationships to be used in a consistent way. The results show that Brazil is now in the downturn phase of the financial cycle. Moreover, the results underscore the importance of macro-financial linkages and highlight risks to the recovery going forward.

Subject: Business cycles, Credit, Credit cycles, Economic growth, Financial cycles, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Money, State-owned banks

Keywords: Business cycle, Business cycles, Credit, Credit cycles, Credit growth, Credit response, Credit shock, Credit slowdown, Financial condition, Financial conditions index, Financial conditions shock, Financial cycle, Financial cycles, Global, Public-sector credit, State-owned banks, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

28
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2017/012
Stock No:

WPIEA2017012
ISBN:

9781475571042
ISSN:

1018-5941

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