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The dollar, bank leverage and real economic activity: an evolving relationship

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  • Burcu Erik
  • Marco Jacopo Lombardi
  • Dubravko Mihaljek
  • Hyun Song Shin

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The interest in how financial conditions affect real economic activity has grown since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), not least because some of the mechanisms at play in the financial sector may have changed. We shed light on this issue by examining the empirical relationship between global Purchasing Managers' Indices, world trade and indicators of global financial conditions, with a special focus on the broad dollar index. We show that the influence of the dollar on real economic activity and global trade seems to have increased since the GFC, while that of the VIX has decreased.

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  • Burcu Erik & Marco Jacopo Lombardi & Dubravko Mihaljek & Hyun Song Shin, 2020. "The dollar, bank leverage and real economic activity: an evolving relationship," BIS Working Papers 847, Bank for International Settlements.
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    Keywords

    financial conditions; economic activity; world trade; dollar exchange rate; bank leverage; purchasing managers' indices; nowcasting; global supply chains;
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    JEL classification:

    • C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling
    • E2 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment
    • F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
    • F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
    • F6 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization

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