A U.S. Financial Conditions Index : Putting Credit Where Credit is Due /

This paper uses vector autoregressions and impulse-response functions to construct a U.S. financial conditions index (FCI). Credit availability-proxied by survey results on lending standards-is an important driver of the business cycle, accounting for over 20 percent of the typical contribution of f...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Swiston, Andrew
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/161
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF