• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Testing the global banking glut hypothesis
  • Contributor: Kauko, Karlo [Author]; Punzi, Maria Teresa [Author]
  • Published: Kiel: Kiel University, FinMaP - Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance, 2015
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Global Savings Glut ; F34 ; F32 ; Global Banking Glut ; Mortgage Loans ; F33 ; House Prices ; VAR model ; Cross-Border Banking Transactions
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  • Description: This paper presents VAR results on the recent economic history of the USand focuses on the dependence of US macro financial variables on international capital flows. Both gross and net flows are included in the analysis. The results indicate that cross-border funding has affected the build-up in the US housing market irrespective of how these flows are defined and measured. Both the savings glut hypothesis and the banking glut hypothesis are supported by these findings. However, net banking flows appear to explain the higher volatility in the increase in house prices as well as the mortgage loan boom.
  • Access State: Open Access