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Title: How important is the credit channel? An empirical study of the US banking crisis

Author(s): Chunping Liu and Patrick Minford

Publication Date: September 2012

Keyword(s): bank crisis, credit channel, financial frictions and indirect inference

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: We examine whether by adding a credit channel to the standard New Keynesian model we can account better for the behaviour of US macroeconomic data up to and including the banking crisis. We use the method of indirect inference which evaluates statistically how far a model?s simulated behaviour mimics the behaviour of the data. We find that the model with credit dominates the standard model by a substantial margin. The credit channel is the main contributor to the variation in the output gap during the crisis.

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Liu, C and Minford, P. 2012. 'How important is the credit channel? An empirical study of the US banking crisis'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9142