Recent trends in corporate and household balance sheets in Spainmacroeconomic implications
- Malo de Molina, José Luis 1
- Restoy, Fernando 1
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Banco de España
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ISSN: 1696-2222
Datum der Publikation: 2004
Nummer: 2
Seiten: 1-35
Art: Arbeitsdokument
Andere Publikationen in: Documentos ocasionales - Banco de España
Zusammenfassung
This paper analyses the trends in corporate and household wealth in Spain over the past decade. It is found that the non-financial private sector has increased its exposure to changes in interest rates and in financial asset prices, which suggests significant changes in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Nonetheless, it is documented that these effects are insufficiently reflected in the conventional macroeconometric models used by central banks and public- and private-sector analysts. This starting point is taken to reflect on the role to be played, in general, by the analysis of financial developments in evaluating the macroeconomic situation underpinning monetary policy decisions and the implications of financial imbalances for the conduct of economic authorities in the euro area countries.
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