Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223071 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
wiiw Working Paper No. 166
Publisher: 
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna
Abstract: 
Using dynamic factor models and state-space techniques we quantify financial cycles for twenty European countries over the period 1960Q1-2015Q4 capturing imbalances across credit, housing, bond and equity markets. The paper documents the existence of slow-moving and persistent financial cycles for all countries in the sample, many of which also exhibit high cross-country synchronicity. Spillover analysis points at the significant role the global financial cycle and a common latent region-specific factor, the European financial cycle, play in shaping national financial market dynamics. Estimations using Bayesian panel VAR models to assess interactions between external and internal macroeconomic imbalances suggest that financial cycles are an important driver of business cycles and public debt dynamics, with much stronger shock transmission observed in the euro area and systemic European economies.
Subjects: 
financial cycles
macroeconomic imbalances
financial stability
business cycles
financial spillovers
panel VAR
Bayesian VAR
JEL: 
E44
F32
G15
F4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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