On the Credit-to-GDP Gap and Spurious Medium-Term Cycles
12 Pages Posted: 30 Apr 2020
Date Written: 2020
Abstract
The Basel III framework advises considering a reference indicator at the country level to guide the setting of the countercyclical capital buffer: the credit-to-GDP gap. In this paper, I provide empirical evidence suggesting that the credit-to-GDP gap is subject to spurious medium-term cycles, i.e. artificial boom-bust cycles with a maximum duration of around 40 years.
Keywords: Basel III, Hodrick-Prescott filter, detrending
JEL Classification: C10, E32, E58, G01
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Schüler, Yves S., On the Credit-to-GDP Gap and Spurious Medium-Term Cycles (2020). Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper No. 28/2020, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3606001 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3606001
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