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When Credit Bites Back
Author(s) -
JORDÀ ÒSCAR,
SCHULARICK MORITZ,
TAYLOR ALAN M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of money, credit and banking
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.763
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1538-4616
pISSN - 0022-2879
DOI - 10.1111/jmcb.12069
Subject(s) - recession , business cycle , inflation (cosmology) , economics , macro , investment (military) , credit cycle , financial crisis , monetary economics , finance , macroeconomics , computer science , physics , politics , theoretical physics , political science , law , programming language
Using data on 14 advanced countries between 1870 and 2008 we document two key facts of the modern business cycle: relative to typical recessions, financial crisis recessions are costlier, and more credit‐intensive expansions tend to be followed by deeper recessions (in financial crises or otherwise) and slower recoveries. We use local projection methods to condition on a broad set of macro‐economic controls to study how past credit accumulation impacts key macro‐economic variables such as output, investment, lending, interest rates, and inflation. The facts that we uncover lend support to the idea that financial factors play an important role in the modern business cycle.