The global economy of today 'is a small world after all.' The high degree of international trade integration and financial interconnectedness has created tight linkages across most countries even between countries that may be very distant geographically or that may not have significant trade or financial ...

Episodes in which credit to the private sector rises significantly above its long-run trend (that is 'credit booms') are often associated with periods of economic turbulence. Until recently however efforts at developing methodologies for identifying credit booms and characterizing the economic ...

The developments that led to the 2008 global financial crisis raised a new awareness amongst central banks and financial regulators in advanced economies about the need to approach financial regulation and surveillance from a macroeconomic (i.e. systemic) and prudential (i.e. pre-emptive) perspective. ...

¿Cuáles son las principales características de las bonanzas o booms crediticios y sus efectos sobre las fluctuaciones macroeconómicas? Este artículo responde esta pregunta aplicando un método que propusimos en un trabajo anterior para identificar y medir bonanzas crediticias con datos de 61 economías ...

La política macroprudencial encierra la promesa de convertirse en una herramienta poderosa para prevenir crisis financieras. Una amplificación financiera como respuesta a un shock local o a un contagio global y externalidades pecuniarias causadas por restricciones de colateral fisherianas, entrega un ...