Output and Inflation Responses to Credit Shocks: Are There Threshold Effects in the Euro Area?

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Alessandro Calza

European Central Bank (ECB)

João Sousa

Banco de Portugal

Date Written: April 2005

Abstract

This paper investigates whether output and inflation respond asymmetrically to credit shocks in the euro area. The methodology, based on a non-linear VAR system, follows work by Balke (2000) for the US. The results reveal evidence of threshold effects related to credit conditions in the economy. Consistent with this finding, the impulse responses show some signs of asymmetric responses over the lending cycle.

Keywords: credit, euro area, asymmetric shocks, non-linearities

JEL Classification: E51, C15, C32

Suggested Citation

Calza, Alessandro and Sousa, João, Output and Inflation Responses to Credit Shocks: Are There Threshold Effects in the Euro Area? (April 2005). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=704555 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.704555

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