Credit Matters: Empirical Evidence on U.S. Macro-Financial Linkages

 
Author/Editor: Bayoumi, Tamim ; Melander, Ola
 
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
 
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Summary: This paper develops a framework for analyzing macro-financial linkages in the United States. We estimate the effects of a negative shock to banks' capital/assetratio on lending standards, which in turn affect consumer credit, mortgages, and corporate loans, and the corresponding components of private spending (consumption, residential investment and business investment). In addition, our empirical model allows for feedback from spending and income to bank capital adequacy and credit. Hence, we trace the full credit cycle. An exogenous fall in the bank capital/asset ratio by one percentage point reduces real GDP by some 1½ percent through its effects on credit availability, while an exogenous fall in demand of 1 percent of GDP is gradually magnified to around 2 percent through financial feedback effects.
 
Series: Working Paper No. 08/169
Subject(s): United States | Credit | External shocks | Capital markets | Asset ratio | Consumer credit | Corporate sector | Loans | Gross domestic product

Author's Keyword(s): Macro-Financial | Credit | Lending Standards | Bank Capital | Financial Accelerator
 
English
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Format: Paper
Stock No: WPIEA2008169 Pages: 27
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