Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82309 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Danmarks Nationalbank Working Papers No. 78
Publisher: 
Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen
Abstract: 
We examine the real effects of credit-supply shocks using a series of structural vector autoregressive models estimated on the basis on a new quarterly data set for Denmark spanning the past 90 years or so. We find no effects on the unemployment level from supplyshocks to credit from commercial/savings banks in the periods 1922-1949 and 1981-2011 even though these periods contained several cases of severe banking and financial crises. Furthermore, credit-supply shocks do not seem to explain any significant share of the volatility in the unemployment rate during these periods. We attribute these findings to the large market for mortgage-credit loans in Denmark raised through bond-financed mortgage banks combined with comprehensive government interventions to safeguard financial stability during times of crises. There might, however, be indications of real effects from credit-supply shocks in the period 1950-1980 where credit rationing and exchange controls served as important economic-policy instruments. Overall these results indicate that both the financialsystem structure as well as the extent of government intervention during banking crises play a key role to the significance of real effects of credit-supply shocks. These findings must be kept in mind when modelling the role of financial intermediaries in macroeconomic models.
Subjects: 
Credit-supply shocks
Banking and financial crises
Vector autoregressions
Danish Economic history
JEL: 
C32
E51
N14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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