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Title: Global Banks, Financial Shocks and International Business Cycles: Evidence from an Estimated Model

Author(s): Robert Kollmann

Publication Date: May 2012

Keyword(s): Bayesian econometrics, financial crisis, global banking, investment and real activity

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper estimates a two-country model with a global bank, using US and Euro Area (EA) data, and Bayesian methods. The estimated model matches key US and EA business cycle statistics. Empirically, a model version with a bank capital requirement outperforms a structure without such a constraint. A loan loss originating in one country triggers a global output reduction. Banking shocks matter more for EA macro variables than for US real activity. During the Great Recession (2007-09), banking shocks accounted for about 20% of the fall in US and EA GDP, and for more than half of the fall in EA investment and employment.

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Kollmann, R. 2012. 'Global Banks, Financial Shocks and International Business Cycles: Evidence from an Estimated Model'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8985