Measuring the macroeconomic risks posed by asset price booms
By: Stephen G. Cecchetti.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12542; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12542.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Modern central bankers are the risk managers of the financial system.  They take actions based not only on point forecasts for growth and inflation, but based on the entire distribution of possible macroeconomic outcomes.  In numerous instances monetary policymakers have acted in ways designed to avert disasters.  What are the implications of this approach for managin the risks posed by asset price booms? To address this question, I study data from a cross-section of countries to examine the impact of equity and property booms on the entire distribution of deviation in output and price-level from their trends.  The results suggest that housing booms worsen growth prospects, creating outsized risks of very bad outcomes.  By contrast, equity booms have very little impact on the expected mean and variance of macroeconomic performance, but worsen the worst outcomes"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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