Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229089 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2475
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We estimate a modified version of the "Financial Business Cycles" model originally developed by Iacoviello (2015) in order to investigate the role played by financial factors in driving the business cycle in the euro area. In the model, financial shocks such as borrower defaults, collateral shocks and credit supply effects amplify economic downturns by reducing the flow of credit from banks to the real sector. In this novel application to the euro area, we introduce capital reallocation inefficiency, an innovation to the original set-up which allows for more realistic effects of entrepreneur defaults on economic activity. Our results suggest that financial factors, as captured by this model, played a smaller role in the euro area throughout the double-dip recession than in the United States during the 2008-09 global financial crisis. In a scenario on second-round effects implied by potential NFC loan losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we find large financial amplification risks to real economic activity
Subjects: 
DSGE
Bayesian estimation
housing
financial frictions
JEL: 
E32
E44
E47
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-4392-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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