Browsing Economics by OzU Authors "Bahadır, Berrak"
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Catching up or drifting apart: convergence of household and business credit in Europe
Bahadır, Berrak; Valev, N. (Elsevier, 2017)We provide evidence for convergence in the levels of household and business credit across European countries. The process is particularly strong for the transition countries that have a low initial level of private credit ... -
Credit decomposition and business cycles in emerging market economies
Bahadır, Berrak; Gumus, I. (Elsevier, 2016)This paper analyzes the differential effects of household and business credit dynamics on business cycles in emerging market economies. We first provide evidence that existing results relating credit expansions to economic ... -
Emerging market economies and the world interest rate
Bahadır, Berrak; Lastrapes, W. D. (Elsevier, 2015-11)We use a Factor Augmented VAR model to estimate the dynamic responses of interest rates in emerging market economies to the ‘world’ interest rate, which we extract from a dynamic factor model of yields in industrialized ... -
Financial development convergence
Bahadır, Berrak; Valev, N. (Elsevier, 2015-07)We show that credit levels relative to GDP and other measures for financial development tend to converge across countries over time. The results are obtained using a broad sample of countries over many years and controlling ... -
The productivity gap: Monetary policy, the subprime boom, and the post-2001 productivity surge
Selgin, G.; Beckworth, D.; Bahadır, Berrak (Elsevier, 2015-03)It is widely believed that, in the wake of the dot.com crash, the Fed kept the federal funds target rate too low for too long, inadvertently contributing to the subprime boom. We attribute this and other Fed departures ...
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