Showing posts with label credit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label credit. Show all posts
Sunday, September 1, 2019

1/9/19: Priming the Bubble Pump: Extreme Credit Accommodation in the U.S.

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Using Chicago Fed National Financial Conditions Credit Subindex (weekly, not seasonally adjusted data), I have plotted credit conditions m...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

12/1/19: Global Liquidity Conditions

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Things are getting ugly in the global liquidity environment. 1) The U.S. Treasuries demand from foreign buyers is drifting down - a tren...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

2/9/16: Does bank competition reduce cost of credit?

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In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, there has been quite a debate about the virtues and the peril of competitive pressures in the ...
Friday, September 2, 2016

2/9/16: Interest Rates, Financial Cycles and the Real Economy

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Claudio Borio and his team at the Bank for International Settlements have just published another interesting working paper, titled “Moneta...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

3/5/16: Banks Have Way Bigger Problems Than Low Interest Rates

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Almost not a day goes by without someone, somewhere in the media whingeing about the huge toll low interest rates take on banks profitabil...
Monday, March 23, 2015

23/3/15: Credit, Domestic Demand and Investment: Euro Area in Three Charts

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Three interesting charts outlining the big themes in Euro area economy: First the 'limping leg' of the euro recovery: credit. Ch...
Monday, January 12, 2015

12/1/2015: Euro Area vs US Banks and Monetary Policy: The Weakest Link

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Cukierman, Alex, " Euro-Area and US Banks Behavior, and ECB-Fed Monetary Policies During the Global Financial Crisis: A Comparison &q...
Friday, January 2, 2015

2/1/2015: Monetary Policy and Property Bubbles

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Returning again to the issue of lender/funder liability in triggering asset price bubbles (see more on this here: http://trueeconomics.blo...
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...