Credit market and macroeconomic volatility

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This paper investigates the role of credit market size as a determinant of business cycle fluctuations. First, using OECD data I document that credit market depth mitigates the impact of variations in productivity to output volatility. Then, I use a business cycle model with borrowing limits a la Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) to replicate this empirical regularity. The relative price of capital and the reallocation of capital are the key variables in explaining the relation between credit market size and output volatility. The model matches resonably well the reduction in productivity-driven output volatility implied by the established size of the credit market observed in OECD data.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 743

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth ; Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity ; Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy ; Financial Institutions and Services: General
• Subject: asset prices ; credit frictions ; reallocation of capital ; Kreditmarkt ; Konjunktur ; Volatilität ; Theorie ; OECD-Staaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Mendicino, Caterina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): European Central Bank (ECB)
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/153177
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET