Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46546 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3395
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper employs a panel vector autoregressive model for the member countries of the Euro Area to explore the role of banks during the slump of the real economy that followed the financial crisis. In particular, we seek to quantify the macroeconomic effects of adverse loan supply shocks, which are identified using sign restrictions. We find that loan supply shocks significantly contributed to the evolution of the loan volume and real GDP growth in all member countries during the financial crisis. However, concerning both, the timing and the magnitude of the shocks our results also indicate that the Euro Area was characterized by a considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity.
Subjects: 
Euro Area
panel vector autoregressive model
sign restrictions
loan supply shocks
JEL: 
C33
E32
E51
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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