Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/167486 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6500
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Economic research has considered Private Debt a determinant of GDP growth for years. By keeping this perspective, the objective of this work is to understand how much of the GDP response to a monetary shock is due to the variation of private debt. This is the marginal contribution of private debt, which we relate to an increase of the aggregate demand. We study the USA, the UK and Germany in the period 1980q1-2015q4. Our approach is based on the comparison of one baseline structural VAR with one counterfactual for each country. The analysis is developed using the two main constituents of private debt: households and corporations debt.
Subjects: 
private debt
GDP
monetary policy
structural VAR
JEL: 
O11
O16
O51
O52
E44
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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