Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101119 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2013/3
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
We add the Bernanke-Gertler-Gilchrist model to a world model consisting of the US, the Eurozone and the Rest of the World in order to explore the causes of the banking crisis. We test the model against linear-detrended data and reestimate it by indirect inference; the resulting model passes the Wald test only on outputs in the two countries. We then extract the model's implied residuals on unfiltered data to replicate how the model predicts the crisis. Banking shocks worsen the crisis but 'traditional' shocks explain the bulk of the crisis; the non-stationarity of the productivity shocks plays a key role. Crises occur when there is a 'run' of bad shocks; based on this sample Great Recessions occur on average once every quarter century. Financial shocks on their own, even when extreme, do not cause crises - provided the government acts swiftly to counteract such a shock as happened in this sample.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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