Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249243 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Economic Research Working Papers No. 98
Publisher: 
Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), Investigaciones Económicas (ie), Buenos Aires
Abstract (Translated): 
With the aim of quantifying the effect of the decrease in interest rates on consumer loans (both credit cards and personal loans, in local currency to the non-financial private sector) in Argentina between March and December 2020, monthly error correction models are estimated, and counterfactual scenarios are developed for each of the credit lines. The sample that is used includes the period 2004-2020 and the determinants are the corresponding interest rates and economic activity measures. As an alternative case, it is assumed that interest rates would have been fixed in 2020 at the values of February that year and/or that the parameters of elasticities that operated in the consumer credit markets were those associated with the pre-COVID-19 context. The counterfactual scenarios implemented within the econometric models suggest that the decline in the interest rate would have cushioned, with different magnitudes throughout 2020, the fall caused by effects of the pandemic both in the credit cards and personal loans real balances.
Subjects: 
consumption credit
COVID-19 crisis
Argentina
credit cards
personal loans
JEL: 
C01
E21
E50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
608.76 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.