Showing posts with label credit crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label credit crisis. Show all posts
Friday, January 2, 2015

2/1/2015: Credit and Growth after Financial Crises

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Generally, we think of private sector deleveraging as being associated with lower investment by households and enterprises, lower consumpt...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

17/5/2014: Central Bank Annual Report 2013: Not Much to Report, Much to Promote

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from May 4, 2014. This week, the Irish Central Bank published its annual report...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

10/10/2013: IMF's GFSR October 2013: Focus on Lending

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More interesting analysis from the IMF's GFSR (previously covered topics: banks and corporate debt overhang are linked here: http://tru...
Monday, September 16, 2013

16/9/2013: A Liquidity Slush or an Equity Switch?

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Three more charts from BIS Quarterly (http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1309a.pdf), showing the switch of liquidity out of the Emerging Ma...
Monday, November 5, 2012

5/11/2012: Bank credit to SMEs - demand side

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My paper with Javier Sánchez Vidal, Ciaran Mac an Bhaird and Brian M. Lucey "What Determines the Decision to Apply for Credit? Eviden...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

2/2/2012: Euro area credit supply remained constrained in Q4 2011

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ECB's Bank Lending Survey (BLS) for January 2012 is out, showing dramatic failure of the December 2011 LTRO to kick start supply of cr...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

02/07/2011: SMEs and smaller corproate loans rates

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An interesting chart of rates charged on new business loans across SMEs and households - my calculations based on Table B.2.1 from the Centr...
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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Economics 31/7/10: Credit flows in Ireland

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Central Bank quarterly was published yesterday. Here are some updated charts on credit flows (data through May). The main conclusions are: P...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

What if? - When the IMF knocks on neighbours' doors

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In light of the IMF rescue packages for Latvia, Iceland and Hungary, it is worth looking at the conditions imposed under these loan contract...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The latest plan is a 'white elephant'

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The latest Government plan for crises-ridden Irish economy is, letter for letter, a rehashing of past clichés and a pandering to the minorit...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

A train wreck of Irish economic policy

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In managing the ongoing economic crisis, observing Irish Government policy can only be compared to watching a train wreck in slow motion. Th...