Credit booms, monetary integration and the new neoclassical synthesis

Credit to the private sector has risen rapidly in many new Central and Eastern European EU Member States (nMS) in recent years. The lending boom has recently been particularly strong in the segment of loans to households, primarily mortgage-based housing loans, and in those countries that operate cu...

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Published inJournal of banking & finance Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 458 - 470
Main Authors Backe, Peter, Wojcik, C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.03.2008
Elsevier
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
SeriesJournal of Banking & Finance
Subjects
Consumption
Convergence
Convergence process
Credit
Credit booms
Currency board
Currency boards
Economic models
EU membership
Euro
Euro area
European Monetary Union
Lending
Monetary economics
Monetary policy
New neoclassical synthesis
Studies
Europe
E5
Convergence process
Currency boards
New neoclassical synthesis
Credit booms
Euro area
F3
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Summary:Credit to the private sector has risen rapidly in many new Central and Eastern European EU Member States (nMS) in recent years. The lending boom has recently been particularly strong in the segment of loans to households, primarily mortgage-based housing loans, and in those countries that operate currency boards or other forms of hard pegs. The main aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework to analyze the observed developments with a view to exploring some policy implications at a stage in which these countries are preparing for their prospective integration with the euro area. To achieve this, we first use a stylized new neoclassical synthesis (NNS) framework, which has recently been advanced by Goodfriend [Goodfriend, M., 2002. Monetary policy in the new neoclassical synthesis: A primer, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, July.] and Goodfriend and King [Goodfriend, M., King, R., 2001. The case for price stability. NBER Working Paper 8423]. We then discuss the implications of the NNS model for credit dynamics and ensuing monetary policy challenges. Specifically, we emphasize consumption smoothing as an important channel of the observed credit expansion and we show how it is related to and how it affects the monetary policy making in MS. In doing so, we place our discussion in the context of the monetary integration process in general and the nominal convergence process in particular.
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ISSN:0378-4266
1872-6372
DOI:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.07.005