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No evidence of financial accelerator in France

Benoît CAMPAGNE - Vincent ALHENC-GELAS - Jean-Baptiste BERNARD

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No evidence of financial accelerator in France

Benoît CAMPAGNE* - Vincent ALHENC-GELAS** - Jean-Baptiste BERNARD*

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No evidence of financial accelerator in France Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the role of financial acceleration phenomena in France over the period 1987-2013. Constructing a threshold-VAR model allowing for two credit regimes, we formally test for the presence of a financial acceleration and present generalized impulse response functions. Using the volatility of the French stock index CAC40 and the lending spread between small and large firms as credit stress indicators, we show weak evidence of the existence of a global financial accelerator in France and also provide a simple method for computing contributions in threshold-VAR. We insist on the difficulty to construct stable financial sphere - real economy interactions models for France or to identify adequate credit stress indicators.

Keywords : credit constraint, flight to quality, generalized impulse response function, threshold VAR (TVAR)

En France, l'existence d'un accélérateur financier n'est pas établie

Résumé

Cet article étudie le rôle de l'accélérateur financier en France durant la période 1987-2013. À l'aide d'un modèle VAR à seuil autorisant la bascule entre deux régimes de crédit, nous testons formellement la présence d'un effet d'accélération financière et présentons des fonctions de réponses généralisées. Selon deux mesures des conditions de crédit, la volatilité du CAC40 et le spread bancaire à l'emprunt entre petites et grandes entreprises, nous obtenons un rôle faible de l'accélérateur financier en France. Nous proposons aussi une méthode simple pour le calcul des contributions dans un modèle VAR à seuil. Enfin, nous insistons sur la difficulté à construire des modèles stables d'interactions entre les sphères financières et réelles en France ou à identifier des indicateurs des conditions de crédits adéquats.

Mots-clés : contraintes de crédit, fuite vers la qualité, fonction de réponse généralisée, VAR à seuil (TVAR)

Classification JEL : C15, C32, E32, E51

Introduction

The 2008 global crisis has refocused interest on macro-financial linkages, and in particular on

the role of financial intermediaries and their ability to properly finance the economy. In the

wake of the financial crisis, numerous European banks experienced high stress periods. Capi-

tal shortfalls and liquidity restrictions temporarily led to dramatic drops in interbank lending

and called for actions from both the member States and the monetary institutions of the Euro-

zone.

Consequently, corporate credit in Europe - and in particular in France - has seen a sharp

contraction. This decline is partly due to a fall in credit demand from companies. Faced with

a collapse in output demand and what was initially a pronounced increase in uncertainties

as to future economic growth, companies sharply cut their investment spending and scaled

down their inventory, resulting in a fall in their demand for financing.

But the decline in credit may also be partly due to the credit supply behaviour of banks. In

addition to tighter prudential requirements by national supervisors, the deterioration in the

creditworthiness of borrowers may have led banks to restrict their credit supply, amplifying

the economic downturn.

The latter phenomenon refers to the concept of the financial accelerator, as first introduced

by Bernanke and Gertler (1989) [6] and Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) [15]. When the short-term

economic situation is poor, the value of assets held by companies and the profitability of their

use tend to fall, thereby increasing the risk for a bank of not getting its funds back when

it grants a loan. Banks are therefore less conducive to the distribution of credit when the

short-term economic outlook is poor and when prudential requirements are being tightened.

This theoretical prediction question the importance of financial acceleration phenomenons and

their role during the recent crises in France.

This paper makes an attempt to assess the extent to which financial accelerating effects

have been at work over the last decades in France, with a special focus on the Great Recession

and its aftermath. While numerous papers provide a microeconomic partial equilibrium as-

sessment of the impact of supply-side effects on credit markets (see for instance Kremp and

Sevestre (2013) [17] or Cabannes et al. (2013) [8]), we provide with a macroeconomic general

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equilibrium analysis.

The non-linear nature of the financial accelerator lends itself well to the estimation of

a threshold model. Following the methodology developed by Balke (2000)[3], we estimate

a threshold vector autoregressive model (TVAR) with two economic regimes depending on

credit conditions over the period 1987 - 2013. The switch between these two regimes is en-

dogenously determined, and therefore allows for a richer description of mechanisms at stake

during high credit stress periods.

The two estimated models include four variables: a measure of output (GDP), a measure

of inflation (growth rate of Consumer Price Index), a measure of lending interest rates and a

measure of credit conditions. For the latter, we study two different sources of credit instabil-

ity: either a financial markets stress measured by the volatility of the CAC40 index, or a flight

to quality phenomenon measured by the lending spread offered by banks between small and

large firms. The volatility of the CAC40 index is considered a measure of the uncertainty

surrounding the valuation of firms by credit markets, including bank credit markets, whereas

the lending spread reflects the increase of risk adversity of banks during bad times. Therefore,

those measures provide a convenient way to measure the extent to which financial accelera-

tion may be at work.

The formal validity of this non-linear modelling approach is tested following Hansen

(1996) [13] methodology, and the impulse responses of variables to shocks are computed using

Generalised Impulse Response Functions as described in Koop, Pesaran and Potter (1996) [16].

As a result, by means of comparison of the two models, we draw interesting conclusions

about the existence and the strength of the financial accelerator in France over the period of

interest. Formal likelihood ratio tests in our first model based on the volatility of the CAC40

index argue for the absence of non-linearities in the relationship between credit and macroeco-

nomic activity, and is therefore restricted to a linear model. On the contrary, the second model

reflecting the flight to quality phenomenon pleads for the existence of a financial acceleration

effect, and highlights three main periods of flight to quality in the 2000’s, namely 2002Q3-

2004Q3, 2009Q1-2011Q1 and 2012Q2-2013Q3, corresponding to observed credit contraction

periods. However, the study of the impulse responses shows that the expected asymmetries

in responses across credit regimes are absent in our models. The estimated threshold appears

to separate our sample in almost two identical halves for each credit regime. As a conse-

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quence, in absolute terms, the role of the financial accelerator seems to be limited in France

over 1987-2013.

Moreover, as an innovation to the literature, we propose a simple lower bound estimate

to the cost of credit shocks for economic activity, and apply it to the 2008 financial crisis pe-

riod and onwards. Computing the GDP growth dynamic simulation for both models in the

presence of all observed shocks excepting credit conditions fluctuations, we conclude to a

cumulated cost of credit conditions fluctuations since 2008 ranging from 0.5 p.p. for financial

markets stresses, to 2 p.p. of GDP growth due to flight to quality. These same flight to quality

phenomenons during the 1992 crisis accounted for an identical and stable over time 2 p.p. cu-

mulated cost for economic growth. Whereas financial accelerating effects do not dominate in

France when studied from a global time prospect, the particular chronology of adverse shocks

in 2008 and onwards indeed induce non-negligible credit regime switches, further depressing

economic activity.

These results seem in line with those of Calza and Sousa (2006) [9]. Actually, whereas

Balke (2000) [3] identifies important non-linear shock propagation effects in the US, Calza and

Sousa show weaker evidence of these non-linearities on aggregate European data over the

period 1981-2002. However, we show that these conclusions remain fragile, providing with a

detailed analysis focusing in particular on the choice of input variables, their construction and

their transformation. Across all model specifications, obtaining a well-behaved model, both in

terms of econometric and economic properties, is a rather difficult task. In particular, only a

few number of models provide Impulse Response Functions conform to economic intuition.

As a result, estimations presented in this paper correspond to the specific selection of such

a well-behaved model. Therefore, we highlight the difficulties arising in the construction of

a financial-real sphere interaction model aimed at capturing financial acceleration effects in

France. In all, our results may advocate for the absence of a financial accelerator in France over

the 1980-2013 period. These results may also reflect that traditional transmission channels of

financial shocks are irrelevant for France.

This paper is organized as follows. In the first section, we review empirical and theoret-

ical evidence of the existence of supply-side effects and financial accelerators. In the second

section, we present our dataset. In a third section, we describe the econometric TVAR method-

ology aimed at modelling financial accelerating effects. The fourth and fifth sections present

the main results of this study and a robustness discussion.

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1 A fragile financial context within weak European economies

Before the analytical part of this paper, we first give a brief summary of the events that oc-

curred in the Eurozone after 2008 and that lead to deteriorated credit and economic environ-

ments.

1.1 Market fragmentation: the end of Euro-wide studies

Despite the slow recovery of the Eurozone from recession in 2013, credit markets continued

to contract in 2014: outstanding credit to non-financial enterprises was down by 2.0% year-on-

year in the third quarter of 2014. This contraction, which has been almost uninterrupted for

close to 5 years, is directly linked with the two spells of recession in the Eurozone in 2008-2009

and then 2011-2013. Among other things, the latter led to a fall in the investment spending

of companies, and therefore in the drying up of demand for credit to banks. However, this

fall in credit demand, when considered in the general framework of perfect financial markets,

may not be sufficient to explain by itself the overall economic situation: firstly because large

contrasts in the access to credit remain between the different members of the monetary union,

secondly, while some Small and Medium Enterprises still declare having trouble to access

financing, some large companies moved towards to market financing. Moreover, this credit

demand drying up remains insufficient to explain the time-persistence of the adjustment long

after the Eurozone emerged from recession, and its specificities across countries.

Actually, during the third quarter of 2014, credit fell by almost 10% y-o-y in Spain, while

it grew in France by 2%. Looking at the Survey on Access to Finance of Entreprises (SAFE)

conducted by the European Central Bank (ECB) among small and medium-sized companies

in April 2014 (see Figure 1) also confirms this heterogeneous access to bank financing. While

only 11-12% of French and German firms surveyed in 2014 faced credit restrictions1, 20% of

Spanish and Italian were still facing difficulties in the access to credit.

This contrasted situations and fragmented credit markets therefore argues for macroeco-

nomic studies at the national levels.1In the SAFE survey, we consider that a firm faced credit restrictions either in price or volume, if (i) it did not

apply by fear of rejection (self-censorship), (ii) applied but was rejected, (iii) applied but refused because the cost

was too high or (iv) applied but got only a limited part. This is a crude measure of credit restrictions and credit

can indeed be restricted by banks because of a proper assessment of the weak financial health of some firms.

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Figure 1: Bank credit difficulties for Small and Medium Enterprises

(SAFE survey)

1.2 2008 to today, a brief Eurozone summary

Understanding the importance of the credit market adjustments requires to shed light on mar-

ket imperfections that have arisen before and during the Great Recession. This fall in credit

indeed contrasts with the pre-crisis period. During the first half of the 2000s and through

to 2007, the credit market went through a phase of massive expansion in the major Euro-

zone countries, mainly driven by economic growth, but also supply-side phenomenons, for

instance a poor perception of systemic credit risk by European banks. In the wake of the

subprime crisis that started in 2007 in the United States, the risk carried by banks that had

granted loans to insolvent borrowers began to materialise with the growing level of borrowers’

defaults, causing a sudden turnaround in expectations. The European credit market suddenly

stalled, before contracting in a process that persists today (see Figure 2).

Despite the ECB reaction and falling refinancing rates, easing monetary conditions have

passed on in different ways to the countries of the Eurozone. The very fragile state of the

banking system of certain peripheral countries, such as Spain, where the banks were highly

exposed to real-estate risk, prevented the full transmission of the ECBs’ low-rate policy. On

the contrary, it was passed on more clearly to corporate lending rates in countries perceived

as being sounder, such as France and Germany. Systemic risk was also reinforced by the high

correlation between sovereign risk and banking risk highlighted by the sovereign debt crisis

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Figure 2: Annual growth rate of outstanding loans to non-financial

companies

from 2010 onwards. This situation whereby each nation carries a specific risk premium has

led to the fragmentation of the credit market. For example, the borrowing costs faced by non-

financial firms continue to be much higher in those countries perceived as being more fragile

(see Figure 3).

Figure 3: Average bank rate on new business loans to Eurozone firms

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In consequence of growing difficulties of the national banking systems the structure of

corporate financing in the Eurozone evolved toward more market oriented solutions. Indeed,

unlike American companies relying more directly on financial markets and in particular bond

issues, the majority of European companies gain access to external financing through bank

intermediation. In particular in France, bank lending represented about 73% of the total debt

of companies prior to the crisis. Since 2008, this share has regularly fallen and bank credit

now represents 63% of companies’ external financing.

The origin of this substitution lies in the financing difficulties of the banking system and

the fall in the rates on bond issues, generating opportunistic behaviour. It is hitting companies

in varying ways. While the lowest-risk companies (generally large companies) can achieve this

substitution at a low cost, the same fact does not apply to companies perceived by markets as

being of higher risk (usually smaller companies), whose bond rates incorporate a higher-than-

usual risk premium that persists today.

Figure 4: Debt structure of large French firms

For large companies that enjoy easier access to financial markets, the fall in bank credit

supply has indeed been offset by a substantial rise in debt security issues (see Figure 4). In

France, market debt progressed by 15% in 2009, after a 1% fall in 2008. At the same time, bank

financing fell from a growth rate of 13% in 2008 to 3% in 2009. The same quasi-substitution

phenomenon can be observed between the end of 2011 and 2012, in the wake of the sovereign

debt crisis, due to a threatening liquidity crunch at the time.

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On the opposite side of the spectrum, and as mentioned above, around 15% of European

SMEs declared having difficulties gaining access to bank financing in 2014. These contrasted

situations between firms however share a common feature of a voluntary or imposed (partial)

renunciation to bank intermediated credit markets, and raise a key question: do those con-

straints have a share of responsibility in the birth of recessions and/or their slow subsequent

recoveries?

1.3 Literature review: credit supply constraints in the Eurozone

Mild microeconomic evidence of credit supply constraints in the Eurozone Regarding the

first question, several studies have been conducted at the microeconomic level in the Euro-

zone in recent times. Globally, they reach similar conclusions and tend to show the absence

of credit rationing through to 2010.

Working on two microeconomic databases (FIBEN and LiFi)2 on individual SMEs, Kremp

and Sevestre (2013) [17] show that there is no robust evidence of small companies having been

subject to credit rationing between 2008 and 2010 in France: although the banks idiosyncrati-

cally reduced their credit supply, the decline in lending to small companies was mainly due

to a fall in demand in the wake of shocks on activity. Likewise, Cabannes et al. (2013) [8]

conclude that the deteriorated outlook predominated over any credit restrictions there might

have been for French companies. The economic part of the French 2008/2009 fiscal stimulus

was particularly targeted at helping SMEs and might explain this assessment. Besides, this

absence of credit constraints during the crisis might have been explained by a more intensive

use of existing and available credit lines.

In the case of Italy, Del Giovane, Eramo and Nobili (2011) [12] use the data of the Bank

Lending Survey (BLS) combined with micro-level information on loans to the private sector

to address the question of credit constraints during the 2002-2009 period. While restrictions

on supply did have a certain impact, they conclude that pure supply effects3 were of minor

importance over the period 2007-2009.

2FIBEN represents balance sheet data, whereas LiFi exposes financial linkages between French firms.3Following the authors’ definition, this category includes constraints arising from both the central bank and

the supervisory authority and therefore not related to firms’ economic and credit worthiness. In particular, this

relates to the cost of funds and balance sheet constraints for banks.

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In Germany, Rottmann and Wollmershäuser (2012) [20] also conclude that there was no

real credit rationing in 2008-2009. On German Ifo Business Survey data from mid-2003 to the

end of 2010, they construct a credit crunch indicator, as the part of loan supply not explained

by firm-specific factors (firms’ creditworthiness) and the safe interest rate (opportunity cost of

providing risky loans). They find lower evidence of credit crunch in Germany during 2008-

2010 than during the period 2003-2004. Interestingly, they also find that large firms were the

most affected one at the beginning of the financial crisis.

Lastly, concerning Spain however, Bentolila et al. (2013) [4] developed a different approach

based notably on detailed data regarding relationships between companies and their banks,

and find some evidence of credit rationing. In particular, this rationing appears to be signifi-

cantly more severe when financing was taken out from a bank that was hit harder by the crisis

(for instance the savings banks, Cajas de Ahorros).

Even though these studies mainly reject the idea of pure supply effects at the microeco-

nomic level, the weak recovery observed in the Eurozone still leads us to question the im-

portance of financial and credit markets for economic activity. Indeed, these microeconomic

papers are subject to caveats. For instance, these papers often fail to account for firms’ demog-

raphy and in particular bankruptcies during the crisis that might have created a selection bias

at the micro level when looking at firms’ access to credit. More generally, at the macro level

we refer to a looser definition of credit constraints encompassing both credit volumes and bor-

rowing costs restrictions, without disentangling both, as a more adverse credit environment

likely to induce macroeconomic effects.

In the end, the weakened financial situation of banks over the last six years may have

adversely affected their global credit supply behaviour and induced a slower recovery.

Financial acceleration effects Two streams of economy theory address this question and

provide insights into the mechanisms involved: the financial accelerator theory and the flight

to quality phenomenon. These mechanisms imply that endogenous forces in credit markets

amplify and propagate shocks to the real economy. Based on strong microeconomic founda-

tions they conduct to differentiated macroeconomic regimes.

The roots of both mechanisms lie in financial market imperfections. Bank financing in-

volves lenders and borrowers in principal-agent relation as described by contract theory:

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lenders and borrowers do not share the same information concerning the degree of risk at-

tached to the investment projects, relating as for instance to the behaviour of the borrower

or the final returns of investment projects. This information asymmetry is a credit market

imperfection. Banks consequently implement systematic auditing and information collection

procedures to estimate the potential value and the potential risk bound to the contract. These

procedures are costly and are therefore passed on by the banks to their clients in their credit

access terms: it gives rise to an external financing premium.

To minimize information asymmetries, along with the counterparty risk, lenders can base

their decisions on the value of the assets held by the borrowers, and accordingly apply an

inversely-proportional external financing premium. Signals used by banks to infer risk may

come from the balance sheet net worth of companies or their collateral level. However, as

the valuation of balance sheets or collateral is correlated with economic activity, the banks

introduce a de facto pro-cyclical mechanism in their loan granting.

Therefore, a first stream of literature introduces financial frictions by capturing firms’ bal-

ance sheet effects on investment in a situation with costly state verification. This setting

allows endogenous determination of the external finance premium, i.e. the difference be-

tween the cost of external funding and the opportunity cost of internal funds. Bernanke and

Gertler (1989) [6] develop a simple neoclassical model of business cycles where borrowers’

balance sheets/credit-worthiness condition firms’ production dynamics. A higher borrower’s

net worth4 reduces agency costs of financing real capital investments by weakening informa-

tion asymmetries. In response, business upturns, improving net worth and further lowering

agency costs, therefore increasing investment. In the end, this amplifies activity. In economic

slowdown periods, the deterioration of the balance-sheet position of agents results in an in-

creased premium and more generally, in a deterioration of lending conditions. As a result,

companies are then forced to limit their investment expenditure, and hence their level of pro-

duction: the initial shock spreads and grows. In other terms, shocks affecting the net worth

can initiate fluctuations in idiosyncratic production.

A second approach introduces collateral loans and durable assets as signals for banks,

therefore focusing on the role of asset prices. Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) [15] perform a gen-

eral equilibrium analysis and develop the idea that production factors (real-estate assets, plant,

etc.) may serve as collateral for loans. In their model, the borrowing ceiling corresponds to an

4As measured by the difference between assets and liabilities.

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exogenous fraction of the value of collateral. When the price of assets falls, the increased dif-

ficulty in obtaining financing leads to a drop in investments further depreciating the value of

collateral assets at the general macro equilibrium. Hence, the interaction between credit limits

and asset prices turns out to be an important amplification and propagation mechanism of

shocks at the aggregated level. A shock on the price of assets may generate a variation in the

value of collateral and hence trigger the mechanism described above. Here again small, tem-

porary technology or income shocks might generate large, persistent fluctuations in aggregate

output and asset prices.

These mechanisms known as financial accelerators, or broad credit channel, explain the inter-

dependence between the real and financial sectors. In order to identify those phenomenons at

the macro level, two additional comments need to be made with respect to the form that finan-

cial accelerator take place in the economy. First, banks may adopt differentiated behaviours

depending on the size of companies, a phenomenon known as the flight to quality and first ex-

posed in Bernanke (1993) [5]. Second, the significance of the financial accelerator mechanism

differs according to the phase of the economic cycle.

As explain above, a risk premium appears to compensate lenders for the costs incurred

in evaluating, monitoring and enforcing credit contracts. Therefore, banks usually reduce the

proportion of funds allocated to uncertain projects requiring close monitoring (or increase

their cost of financing) and tend to favour safer projects. During a global increase in uncertain-

ties (as during crises), information asymmetries are potentially smaller for large enterprises,

and banks will consequently favour those firms’ projects both through a lower borrowing cost

or higher credit volumes, restricting their lending to small firms. This differentiated treatment

comes from structural difference between small and large firms: large firms usually operates

in different sectors and offer a greater risk diversification. Moreover, they are also less sen-

sitive to economic fluctuations as they have better control over their inventory. Large firms

also generally have officials (accountants, auditors) who allow banks an easier access to infor-

mation, leading to economies of scale in the information collection process and agency costs

borne banks. Last, this same firms are often in relationship with multiple banks, and are

therefore relatively more financially stable.

A second remark stems from the fact that financial accelerating phenomenons have a

stronger effect in bad times than in good times. During an expansionary phase the global net

worth of borrowers, at aggregated level, is high and hence the agency costs are low. Conse-

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quently, the external financing premium is low and variations in the value of companies have

little effect on the lending decision and the financial accelerator is weakened. In recessionary

periods however, when global wealth is low, fluctuations in current profits have significant

effects on investment and production. As a result, the financing premium increases and the

amplifying effects are therefore stronger in unfavourable economic periods. This difference

may amplify the flight to quality, large enterprises being able to dampen a depressed activity

more easily. This idea is exposed in Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1994) [7]. In all, the

asymmetric nature of the financial accelerator stems from the zero lower bound on the exter-

nal financing premium. Indeed, in bad times this premium might potentially climb up to high

levels, restraining economic activity, whereas in good times, it cannot decrease below 0 and

further foster growth.

The financial accelerator is thus asymmetrical in essence and potentially displays non-

linear behaviours as to the response of real activity to economic and financial shocks. The

methodology developed hereafter and the variables used attempt to identify these differen-

tiated regimes. Moreover, all these theoretical approaches share a common critical feature:

credit conditions are not a necessary source of shocks but plays, nonetheless, the role of prop-

agator and amplifier of shocks.

Identifying credit constraints and their macroeconomic impact As exposed above, the exis-

tence of credit constraints is not a necessary condition to justify the importance of credit for

activity and theoretical works also suggest that the economy might react differently depend-

ing on the credit environment.

To investigate the existence of flight to quality effects, Balke (2000) [3] introduces the use

of a Threshold-VAR and studies the non-linear propagation of shocks in the economy condi-

tionally on the credit environment. Working on US data on the period 1960Q1-1997Q3, Balke

measures credit conditions with three different flight to quality indicators namely: (i) the com-

mercial paper/T-Bill spread, (ii) the mix of bank loans and commercial paper in total firm

external finance and (iii) the difference between the growth rates in the short-term debt of

small and large manufacturing firms. He finds evidence of non-linearities in the propagation

of shocks depending on the credit environment and notices that shocks have stronger effects

on GDP and inflation when credit is in a stressed credit environment5.

5Balke identify this stressed credit environment to a regime of credit constraints.

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Proceeding identically, on aggregate European data over the period 1981Q1-2002Q3, Calza

and Sousa (2006) [9] measure credit conditions by the growth rate of loans to the private

sector. They also identify non-linear propagation phenomenon and magnified effects during

low credit cycles. However, these results were estimated on the pre-crisis period and may

not apply to the credit environment yielded by the 2008 financial crisis and onward. Bank-

ing systems of the different EU countries have indeed proved to lack stabilization mechanisms.

This paper replicates these methodologies on French data including the 2008 crisis period.

2 Data

This section presents the dataset used for the empirical analysis. However, as the choice

of these data is subject to numerous caveats, the sensibility of the results to this choice is

discussed in Section 5.

Disentangling credit supply and demand effects: Disentangling between credit supply con-

straints and credit demand contractions is a difficult task at the macroeconomic level. As this

paper makes an attempt to mainly focus on the credit supply side, a few introducing warnings

need to be raised:

• a negative credit supply shock might both refer to a transmission of banks’ idiosyncratic

constraints (balance sheets issues, difficulties to access interbank lending markets, macro-

prudential regulations), but also to a proper assessment of the deteriorated counterparty

risks and firms’ financial health,

• in case of credit standards tightening, firms might self-censor and decide not to ask for

credit. As a result, part of the potential credit demand is unobserved at the macro level,

• corporate bonds markets are not necessarily a pure substitute to credit, as Cecchetti

(1995) [11] brings to attention that in the US, bond financing might be conditional on the

availability of adequate credit lines in order to convince investors,

• credit constraints are differentiated by firms’ size, small firms being more sensitive to

them as they have fewer substitute sources of financing. Aggregate data might therefore

hide this underlying heterogeneity of firms.

Lastly, the general choice of credit stress variables in our analysis was partly driven by

availability issues. Financial and country-specific data are difficult to obtain on long periods,

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especially before the creation of the Monetary Union. In the end, our dataset is still subject to

finite sample bias.

Dataset: Our dataset consists of four macroeconomic variables: a measure of economic ac-

tivity, of inflation, of lending interest rates and of the credit environment.

Economic activity is measured here by the growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product.

Inflation is measured by the growth rate of the French Consumer Price Index. Those data are

taken from the Quarterly National Accounts and statistics of the Insee6 and are available at

minimum for the period 1952-2013.

The interest rate corresponds to the financing cost of firms in the economy, in order to

study its impact on economic activity. It is measured by the average interest rate on loans (ex-

cluding overdrafts) of more than two years computed by the Banque de France on 1984-2014.

Lastly, the model contains a variable intended to reflect the credit market situation. Credit

constraints cannot be directly observed or quantified and several indicators attempt to iden-

tify their consequences. We choose to identify here two phenomena: flight to quality episodes

or more general credit squeezes. The analysis therefore uses two different measures of credit

conditions. Note that responses to the BLS survey have not been used as indicators due to

their biasedness and their differences with the SAFE survey.

The first variable used to assess the existence of flight-to-quality phenomenons is the differ-

ence between the loan interest rate billed to small enterprises and that billed to large enter-

prises.

The theory exposed in previous section, based on differences in agency costs and on the un-

certainties surrounding the projects of large and small enterprises, indeed suggests that banks

apply an external financing premium that differs according to company size, even though the

refinancing cost on loans is the same for both type of firms. The interest rate spread indeed

captures this effect as it tends to widen during periods where bank credit is tightening. A

structure effect could however reduce this difference if a proportion of small companies did

not take out these loans which have become more costly. The riskiest loans would be granted

relatively less often, bringing down the average rate overall and probably more for small en-

6French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies.

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terprises.

Due to a lack of long time series on interest rates filtered by company size, it is necessary

to use an approximation in order to build this indicator. Therefore, the loan amount is used

as a proxy for size. We use Banque de France interest rates data between 1984 and 2013 on

credits (excluding overdrafts) of less than two years. The rates on loans agreements for less

than e15 thousands are considered as being granted mainly to small enterprises, while the

rates for loans above e1.5 million are considered as being granted mainly to large enterprises.

This breakdown by company size, which is regularly used in the empirical literature, is an

approximation of the partition between "more secure borrowers", i.e. large companies, and

"riskier borrowers", i.e. small companies. Lastly, as these interest rates are end-of-period mea-

sures, we choose to lag the time series by one quarter, in order to obtain a series representing

the choice of banks at the beginning of the current period (i.e. the decision at the end of the

previous quarter). This relates to our choice of ordering as discussed in the next Section 3.

As well as its a priori ability to capture flight-to-quality periods, this measurement presents

the advantage of being relatively independent of the economic cycle and of monetary policy

decisions. Indeed, in a "standard" economic regime the behaviour of banks towards borrowers

should evolve in an undifferentiated way between the various sizes of company. For example,

in an economic recovery period, banks will increase their flows of new loan agreements at the

same speed across all companies. Similarly, when the ECB’s base interest rates are cut, banks

will pass this reduction on identically to small and large enterprises. On the contrary, by cap-

turing the differentiated ex-post behaviour of banks towards different company sizes, these

indicators mainly identify the credit supply side of credit squeezes. However, like any indica-

tor, they can also take account of a differentiated behaviour by the companies themselves, and,

in this particular case, a differentiated behaviour among large companies, who would attempt

to replace bank financing by market financing.

A last variable completes this identification of credit stress phenomena by identifying bank

credit squeeze phases, that is, a deterioration of the financial environment which may have an

impact on the credit behaviour of banks.

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A measure of stock-market volatility of the CAC40 index7 is used, measuring conditions

on the financial markets. As the CAC 40 VOLA IDX volatility index in the option market, that

is usually used for measuring financial uncertainty, is not computed on long time series, we

turn to the alternative measure of the volatility of the index by its quarterly relative standard

error.8 This also allows us to obtain a measure of market uncertainties on the period 1987-2013.

This measure allows us to focus more specifically on credit squeezes arising from finan-

cial markets uncertainties. As the volatility of the stock market is an indirect measure of risk

aversion and of uncertainties as to the future economic situation of firms (or of the whole

economy and the associated output demand), it is tied to uncertainties surrounding the val-

uation of companies’ balance-sheet. In the light of the previous section and of the net worth

channel, this results in a higher information asymmetry for banks unable to properly assess

the risk associated to a given loan project. This directly translates in a credit tightening for all

types of firms.

Series transformation: The choice of transformation applied to each variable depends on

the stationarity properties of the data and their homogeneity. For credit conditions variables,

we also consider an additional criterion of their econometric ability to give well-behaved results.

We detail this well-behaved criterion in the robustness section 5.

As a result, we choose to work on the growth rate of GDP and CPI and on the first differ-

ences of the interest rates for the main macroeconomic variables. For the lending rate spread,

and the volatility of the CAC40 index, we retain the first difference of the lending spread and

the level of the volatility.

The variables in the dataset are plotted in Figures 5-10.

3 Threshold Vector Autoregression

We now present the methodology used to question the existence of credit constraints and non-

linearities in the economy at the macroeconomic level. In other terms, we are interested in

knowing how does the French activity respond to the credit environment?

7The CAC40 is the French benchmark stock market index. This index represents a capitalization-weighted

measure of the 40 most significant values among the 100 highest market caps on Euronext Paris.8On daily data, we compute the quarterly standard error to quarterly average level ratio in order to correct for

differences in the CAC40 level across time.

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Figure 5: Real French quarterly GDP

growth

Figure 6: French quarterly CPI inflation

Figure 7: Interest rates on loans of more

than two years

(in first differences)

Figure 8: Interest rates on loans of more

than two years

Figure 9: 5-th order moving average of

the lending rate spread between small

and large firms (in first differences)

Figure 10: Volatility of the CAC40 index

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3.1 Threshold-VAR

To identify a potential non-linear propagation of shocks in the economy, we turn to a Threshold-

VAR (henceforth TVAR) model as exposed in Balke (2000) [3].

Although non-linearities are a priori a continuous phenomenon, we choose to approximate

this structure with a discrete two-regimes model. We work in the class of Self-Exciting Thresh-

old AutoRegressive (SETAR) models. Our model writes:

Yt =C1 + A1Yt +P

∑k=1

B1kYt−k +

(C2 + A2Yt +

P

∑k=1

B2kYt−k

)1ct−d>γ + Ut

Yt = [Xt, ∆ ln GDPt, ∆ ln CPIt, ∆rt]′ and t = 1 . . . T

(1)

where Yt contains the quarterly growth rate of the real Gross Domestic Product, of the

consumer price index, the first difference of the lending rate on loans to French firms, and

alternatively two different measures of credit market conditions (as detailed in Section 2): the

first difference of the lending spread between small and large firms, and the volatility of the

CAC40 index (henceforth VCAC40).

C1 and C2 are constants, A1 and A2 reflect the contemporaneous dependencies of Yt, and

B1k , B2

k are the matrices associated with the k-th lagged values of Yt. Additionally, Ut are

structural disturbances and each Uit in Ut = [U1

t , U2t , U3

t , U4t ]′ is taken as independent and

identically distributed.

Non-linearities are introduced through the interaction term 1ct−d>γ. The measure of credit

market conditions ct−d is modelled as a moving average on Yt, and more specifically here on

the credit conditions Xt. The order m of the moving average is unknown and determined ex-

ogenously. In addition, we define d as an unknown diffusion parameter, and γ as the unknown

critical threshold value, above which the model will shift to another regime.

This choice of modelling allows us to distinguish between two credit regimes: a first regime

of ”standard” credit conditions when ct−d < γ and a second regime of ”stressed” credit condi-

tions when ct−d > γ. As the indicator function will endogenously evolve with Yt variables,

this methodology is appropriate to study the non-linear propagation of shocks in the economy.

Lastly, the introduction of A1 and A2 matrices allows for contemporary dependencies be-

tween Yt variables. For this VAR to be estimated, we require an additional causal ordering

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assumption. This ordering method, as first introduced by Sims (1990), gives a recursive struc-

ture to the VAR model. Our choice of ordering is as follows:

Xt =⇒ ∆ ln GDPt =⇒ ∆ ln CPIt =⇒ ∆rt (2)

that is, credit conditions only reacts to lagged values of other variables and has no contem-

poraneous dependency. GDP contemporaneously reacts to credit conditions and with lag to

inflation and the interest rate, etc. As a result, our A1 and A2 matrices are lower triangular

matrices with zeros on the diagonal.

This choice of ordering reflects the timing of decisions and reaction delays in the econ-

omy. It is standard in the empirical literature (cf. Walsh and Wilcox (1995) [10] or Lown and

Morgan (2002) [18]) to place GDP before inflation and the interest rate, in order to replicate

the timing of decisions in the economy: economic activity determines the pricing decision,

and the central bank (i.e. the interest rate) reacts to inflation. However, we depart here from

the usual choice of placing credit conditions as the fourth variable in the VAR, and choose to

make it the first variable of our model. This choice is driven by our identification strategy that

these credit conditions measures should be relatively independent of the economic cycle. In

particular, it embodies the fact that financial markets and banks "moves" first and anticipate

on the developments of the economy before the realization of shocks.

Note that this recursive VAR approach is similar to an ex ante Cholesky decomposition

choosing one of the n! possible orderings.

3.2 Estimation procedure

As mentioned above (γ, d) are unknown parameters and need to be estimated along with the

other coefficients. If (γ, d) were known, the estimation of the model would be straightforward,

proceeding by Ordinary Least Squares. In our context, we resort to Hansen (1996) estimation

method to identify (γ, d).

Denoting θ = [C1, C2, A1, A2, B1, B2] the set of standard parameters to be estimated, the

estimation breaks down as follows:

1. Choose dmax, the maximum diffusion lag. Define D = 1, . . . , dmax.9

9d = 0 is excluded to avoid endogeneity issues.

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2. Choose Nγ, the number of potential γ we want to test. ∀n ≤ Nγ, denote c(n) then

Nγ-th quantile of the empirical sample c1 . . . cT, and define the set of potential γ:

Γ = c(1), . . . , c(Nγ).

3. Conditionally on each (γ, d) ∈ S = Γ× D, the model is estimated by OLS. We obtain

estimates for θ(γ, d), ∀(γ, d) ∈ S .

4. We choose (γ, d) = argmin(γ,d)∈S

Cr(γ, d), where Cr(γ, d) = ln(det[Var(U)]) is a log-determinant

selection criterion. Henceforth, this choice will be described as the optimal couple.

This approach is a grid search approach on a set of possible values for γ and d.10 Note that

the search set for γ is elaborated on the empirical distribution of ct−d refining the grid where

ct−d is denser. As explained in Balke (2000) [3], we also exclude the border values so that at

least 10% of the observations are in each regime.11

Lastly, as there is no a priori on the value of P, we determine the VAR order using a classical

information criteria on the fully specified TVAR. To take into account the particular estima-

tion methodology, we repeat the algorithm for each possible values of p we want to test (here

we allow up to four lags). For each optimal TVAR estimated at a given p, we compute two

information criteria (Schwarz information criterion and a bias-corrected Akaike information

criterion) and select the minimizing and most parsimonious p one.

3.3 Testing for the presence of non-linearities

As we use a non-linear VAR model, it is important to test for the presence of non-linearities.

This is equivalent to test if the TVAR model is preferred to a linear VAR constructed on the

same set of data. Formally, we want to test the null hypothesis H0 against the alternative Ha:

H0 : C2 = A2 = B2 = 0 against Ha : C2 or A2 or B2 6= 0 (3)

However, as (γ, d) is not observed under the null hypothesis, the behaviours of the stan-

dard test statistics are non-standard. As a result, we follow the likelihood ratio approach

developed in Hansen (1999) [14] to test for the presence of non-linearities in SETAR models.

10This grid search is a discrete evaluation of a Maximum Likelihood program (cf. Appendix A).11In other words, we exclude the top and bottom 10-th centiles.

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This test statistic is derived from a standard likelihood ratio statistic between an uncon-

strained TVAR model estimated conditionally on (γ, d), and the linear constrained VAR model

(the H0 model).

LR(γ,d) = (T − P) ln

(det Σ|linear VAR

det Σ|estimated TVAR

)giving

avg−LR = mean

(γ,d)∈SLR(γ,d)

sup−LR = sup(γ,d)∈S

LR(γ,d)

(4)

where Σ|M = Var(U) is the estimated variance-covariance matrix of the disturbances of model

M. From this LR test statistic, we derive two relevant test statistics namely avg−LR the av-

erage likelihood ratio statistic, and sup − LR the maximum likelihood ratio statistics both

computed over the entire search grid.

As mentioned above, the statistics’ distributions are here non-standard. We therefore re-

quire to simulate this distribution by bootstrapping. We follow Hansen (1999) [14] algorithm

described in the Appendix B. Note that this simulation procedure requires the additional as-

sumption that Ut disturbances are independent of past history Ωt−1 on Y and are homoskedas-

tic.12

3.4 Generalised Impulse Response Functions (GIRFs)

The non-linear framework of our VAR-model does not allow direct computations of Impulse

Response Functions. As 1ct−d>γ is endogenously determined, we compute Generalised Im-

pulse Response Functions (henceforth GIRFs) following Koop, Pesaran and Potter (1996) [16].

Those GIRFs take into account the endogenous structure of the indicator function and the fact

that in this particular setting the symmetry, linearity and history independence properties of the

standard IRF in the linear setting fail. In other words, the variables’ responses are no longer

independent of the sign of the shock, its magnitude and the initial conditions.

At date t, the response at horizon k to a shock ut is computed as the difference between

the expected value of Yt+k conditional on past history Ωt−1 and the shock ut minus the value

that would prevail in the absence of shock:

GIRFk = E (Yt+k|ut, Ωt−1)−E (Yt+k|Ωt−1) (5)

12Note that Hansen (1999) shows that this bootstrapping method can be adapted to the case of heteroskedastic

errors.

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The right-hand side of the equation is computed according to the algorithm described in

the Appendix D. These GIRFs are computed by a bootstrapping algorithm described exten-

sively in the Appendix. Response functions are computed conditionally on a given initial

credit regime (1ct−d>γ = 0 or 1ct−d>γ = 1). Therefore, for each response of an endogenous

variable to a shock, we compute two IRFs: one starting in an unstressed credit regimes and one

starting in a stressed regime. Within each subgroup, each term of Equation 5 is evaluated as the

mean of responses over all bootstrapped draws and over all possible initial conditions within

the chosen subgroup.13 However even though the initial regime is fixed, these GIRFs allow

endogenous switches in the indicator function and take into account the non-linear aspect of

our model.

Moreover, these IRFs correct the history dependence of our responses in a non-linear frame-

work. In order to account for the symmetry and linearity dependence of responses, we draw

GIRFs for positive and negative 1- and 2-standard deviation shocks. This allows us to evalu-

ate the sensitivity of the GIRFs with respect to both the magnitude and the sign of the shock.

4 Results

Numerous models, specifications and sample sizes were tested and results presented in this

Section are the selection of the most stable models in terms of estimation and Impulse Re-

sponse Functions. The next Section details the selection process of these models.

4.1 Identification of non-linearities and constraint periods

Estimation results Estimation results are presented in Table 1.

Due to the large number of parameters to estimate, the information criteria select VAR

models built with only one lag. Transmission delays d range from d = 2 to 3 quarters, imply-

ing that the real economy takes the credit environment into account at a relatively moderate

pace. For our two models, the existence of an accelerator effect is given by the test statistics.

Model A, based on the CAC40 volatility, argues for the absence of non-linearities in the prop-

agation of shocks to the economy, and the relationship between credit and activity is, in this

respect, linear. On the contrary, model B, based on the lending spread between small and

large firms, pleads in favour of a financial accelerator effect, as three out of four tests reject

13See the detailed algorithm in the Appendix D for further explanations.

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Table 1: Results for threshold-VAR

Model Credit stress measureEstimated

thresholdAvg-LR Sup-LR Avg-Wald Sup-Wald

% of observations

in standard credit regime

on 2000-2013

A CAC40 volatility 35.17 57.32 32.49 54.48

m=3, P=1, d=2 γ = 0.0384 (0.16) (0.17) (0.07)* (0.13) 50.9%

B ∆Lending rate spread 36.83 70.83 34.20 69.10

m=5, P=1, d=3 γ = -0.0200 (0.12) (0.02)** (0.03)** (0.01)*** 63.6%

System includes: the chosen credit stress measure, GDP growth, CPI inflation and the first difference of the

lending interest rate on credits of more than two years to NFCs.

The lending rate spread (in first differences) model is estimated on (1984Q3-2013Q4), and the CAC40 volatility

(in levels) model on (1987Q3-2013Q4).

Results are from optimal models with VAR order P, a diffusion delay d, and a moving average of order m.

Statistics Avg-LR and Sup-LR (resp. Avg-Wald and Sup-Wald) correspond to the average and the maximum of

the likelihood ratio (resp. Wald) statistics on the search grid. p-values are shown in parentheses. *** represents

a rejection of the null hypothesis at a 1% level of confidence, ** at a 5% level and * at a 10% level.

the null hypothesis at the 5% level of confidence.

Figure 11: First difference of the lending spread moving average and estimated threshold

(including the transmission delay d = 3)

We now turn to a more specific study of non-linearities in model B. With respect to model

A, as the existence of non-linearities is rejected, no differentiated credit regimes are identified.

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Credit constraint periods in model B: flight to quality The corresponding moving average

of the lending spread (in first differences) is plotted against its estimated threshold in Figure

11. We represent a four quarters moving average of the dummy indicator Ict−d>γ.14 Note that

we plot the d-lagged moving average, that is ct−d, so that the sudden increase of the lending

spread starts in 2009Q3, whereas it starts three quarters earlier (2008Q4) in the data. This

allows to directly identify periods of stress on this graph as dates where the moving average

crosses the threshold.

Figure 11 allows to identify three main periods of credit restriction (namely here flight

to quality phenomenons) since 2000 ( 2002Q3-2004Q3, 2009Q1-2011Q1 and 2012Q2-2013Q3).

Indeed, the 2008 great recession is clearly identified on the moving average. This reflects a

faster transmission of the decreasing main refinancing rate at the ECB for large firms. This

differentiated transmission directly relates to the flight to quality theory, where, in uncertain

periods, banks turn more easily to large firms considered are sounder and less sensitive to

future adverse shocks. Moreover, and as previously stated (see Figure 4), firms (and most

probably large firms) massively turned in 2008 towards the bond market. In order to limit

the contraction of their client base, banks may have lowered lending rates to large firms to

fight this substitution. Identically, the observed increase in the lending spread in 2002/2004

corresponds to a faster transmission of the decreasing refinancing rate at the ECB to large

firms. The last 2012-2013 period corresponds to the developments of the sovereign debt crisis

that hit the Eurozone in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

These periods do indeed correspond to observed credit contraction periods, and are reas-

suring as to the relevance of the indicator used. Strictly speaking, this coherence does not

provide conclusive evidence of a causal relation between credit contractions and recessions.

Before 2000, the model clearly identifies the 1992/1993 French recession but also other

episodes of credit stress. The identification of these periods comes from the higher average

observed value and volatility of the lending spread before the creation of the monetary union

(cf. Figure 12). As a result, it reflects less developed credit markets with higher lending rates,

14This choice of moving average representation is made to ease identification of stress periods as the gross

indicator is highly volatile. This volatility is both a result of a binary modelling for the switch between regimes,

which qualifies as a credit stress values which can be both only slightly higher than the threshold or much higher

(like those observed at the end of 2008), and of the choice of a lending spread in first differences rather than in

level.

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Figure 12: Disaggregated lending rates on loans of less than two years for small and large

firms

and de facto a higher probability for the lending spread to stand above the estimated threshold.

In all, in model B, the French economy experienced 20 quarters of tighter lending condi-

tions over the 2000-2013 period. This time span is larger than the actual time in recession,

which is 16 quarters according to the CEPR European cycle dating, and 7 quarters of recession

in France with the restrictive criterion (cf. Table 2).

Table 2: Business cycles dating

Euro Area (CEPR) France (RC)

1974Q3-1975Q1 1974Q4-1975Q2

1980Q1-1982Q3 1992Q2-1993Q1

1992Q1-1993Q3 2008Q2-2009Q2

2008Q1-2009Q2 2012Q4-2013Q1

2011Q3-

CEPR business cycle dating for the Euro area as a whole. The methodology is similar to the NBER business

cycle dating committee and can be found on this website.

RC corresponds to the restrictive (and debatable) recession criterion of two consecutive quarters of negative

GDP growth.

4.2 Impulse Response Functions

In this section, an increase in the credit stress variable translates into a more binding con-

straint as an increase in the volatility of the CAC40 index, or an increase in the lending spread

between small and large firms, reflects a deteriorated credit environment. Impulse Response

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Functions for model A are linear VAR impulse response functions (Figure 13), whereas model

B response functions are generalized IRFs for non-linear VAR (Figure 14) as exposed in Sec-

tion 3.4. The full set of impulse responses functions is presented on Figures 18 to 25 in the

Appendix G and H, and usual economic mechanisms, such as an increase of interest rates

and a deterioration of credit conditions following a shock of inflation therefore resulting in a

fall in GDP growth, are clearly identified. For the purpose of our analysis, we only focus in

this section on the link between activity and credit conditions, and only refer to GDP impulse

responses to the different shocks.

(a) Shock of GDP (b) Shock of inflation

(c) Shock of interest rate (d) Shock of VCAC40

Figure 13: Impulse Responses of GDP growth to one standard deviation shock in model A

Responses of GDP growth For model A estimated on the volatility of the CAC40 index,

since the tests plead against the existence of a non-linear financial accelerator effect, only lin-

ear impulse response functions are computed (cf. Figure 13). They present profiles that are

consistent with economic theory. Following a +1-standard-deviation shock of inflation, inter-

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(a) Shock of GDP - Initial standard

regime

(b) Shock of GDP - Initial stressed

regime

(c) Shock of inflation - Initial standard

regime

(d) Shock of inflation - Initial stressed

regime

(e) Shock of interest rate - Initial

standard regime

(f) Shock of interest rate - Initial

stressed regime

(g) Shock of lending spread - Initial

standard regime

(h) Shock of lending spread - Initial

stressed regime

Figure 14: Impulse Responses of GDP growth to one or two standard deviations shock in

model B

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est rate or credit conditions, GDP growth decreases starting from the second quarter. This

delay or absence of reaction during the first quarter directly results from our ordering and

structuring hypothesis. Convergence is achieved after one to two years.

These results are a useful benchmark to analyse the results of model B’s generalized im-

pulse responses. In particular, persistence is of similar order in the responses plotted in Figure

14. With respect to the amplitude of shocks, interest rate shocks have a stronger impact on

GDP growth (in absolute value) in model A (with a maximum deviation of -0.11% of GDP

growth in model A against -0.07% in model B for a one standard deviation shock).

Taking a closer look at the existence of asymmetries in impulse responses of model B (see

Figure 14), a striking feature is the quasi absence of differences across initial credit regimes,

in contradiction with the results of the tests. This lack of asymmetry between initial regimes

results from the estimation of a threshold separating our sample in two halves of relatively

similar sizes. Figure 11 shows that an important number of observations stands around the

estimated threshold. As a result, even for small shocks, a switch in credit regimes can occur

and the persistence of the model in one regime is low. Generalized IRFs being computed and

averaged on all possible initial conditions (conditional on an initial credit regime), this simi-

larity between initial conditions for both regimes results in quasi identical responses for both

initial credit regimes. This is corroborated by Figure 17 in the Appendix C, with a probability

of being in the stressed credit regime in the absence of shocks (green curve) stable and close to

50%.

As a result, asymmetries are absent of our GIRFs.15 The GIRFs dependence to the sign

and the magnitude of shocks is similar to a linear model. A negative two standard deviations

shock will be opposite and twice stronger as a positive one standard deviation shock.

In the end, results for both models contrast with Balke (2000) [3] on United States data,

identifying clear asymmetries in the response of the economy across credit regimes. Calza

and Sousa (2006) [9] replicating the same analysis at the European aggregate level also find

a weaker importance of non-linearities for macroeconomic responses. In light of results con-

cluding to the absence of non-linearities in France, this might suggest that Calza and Sousa

15One exception is the response of the lending spread to a shock of GDP growth (cf. Figure 22) or interest rate

(cf. Figure 24).

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non-linearities may have been driven by countries with different banking structures.

4.3 Contribution analysis

(a) Model A

(b) Model B

Figure 15: Dynamic simulation in the absence of credit conditions shocks

A last analysis is conducted on our models in order to evaluate the cost of credit condi-

tions fluctuations for the economy. Pragmatically, the underlying issue of this paper is to

assess the cost of credit shocks during the 2008 crisis, but also other major financial crises as

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Figure 16: Dynamic simulation in the absence of credit conditions shocks:

cumulated impact of credit stresses on GDP growth since 1990

the sovereign debt crisis. Answering this question is usually conducted using an historical

decomposition of contributions to GDP growth of the different shocks.

To identify these contributions, we compute the dynamic simulation of the model (linear

for model A and non-linear for model B) in the presence of all observed shocks except the

credit conditions ones. We therefore depart from the methodology presented in Balke (2000)

[3], and a justification of this choice is presented in the Appendix E.

The first advantage of our method is its applicability for both type of linear and non-linear

models, therefore allowing for a coherent framework to compare both models. A second ad-

vantage is the ability to compute a lower bound to the effect of only credit conditions shocks

in the economy. The estimated contributions are indeed a lower bound as it does not take

into account second turn effects potentially magnifying the cost of credit conditions, that is

the effect of other shocks on credit conditions and therefore on credit switches.

The results of those simulations are plotted on Figure 15. Recession identified by the re-

strictive criterion of two consecutive quarters of negative growth are identified by the grey

shaded areas.

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The first important feature of these contribution graphs is the differentiated importance of

credit conditions shocks in both models. In the linear model A estimated on the volatility of

the CAC40 index, credit conditions play only a minor role and account on average only for

0.06% of GDP growth (in absolute value). On the contrary, in model B identified as non-linear,

switching credit regimes plays a more important role during the 1992 and 2008 crises, account-

ing for 0.15% of GDP growth (in absolute value). The fact that model A displays a weaker

contribution of credit condition shocks as compared to model B could follow from the fact

that the interest rate lending spread is a better proxy of credit behaviours than the volatility

of the CAC40 index, and therefore displays a stronger link with GDP growth.

Surprisingly, credit conditions seem not to have a negative impact in France on GDP

growth during the 2011/2012 sovereign debt crises in the Eurozone. However in model B,

the cumulated cost of credit conditions fluctuations16 (cf. Figure 16) averages 2 p.p. of GDP

growth over the 2008Q1-2011Q1 period (against 0.5 p.p. in model A). On a longer period in

model B, we observe that the cost of flight to quality for the 1992 crisis was close to 2008. Its

impact was a permanent and stable one-off shock to GDP.

Moreover, in model A, the plotted cumulated cost of credit conditions is highly cyclical

and do not provide with clear information, as opposed to the behaviour in model B. This can

be related to the fact that model A was deemed linear whereas model B was constructed as a

non-linear TVAR.

Contrary to GIRFs that are independent to initial conditions and therefore non-differentiated

across regimes in our model B, these contributions are history dependant and allow to exhibit

credit regimes switches, and therefore allow for a more historically oriented analysis. One

should not mistake the seemingly strong impact of financial markets on economic activity

during the 2008 crisis and the existence of a global financial acceleration phenomenon over

the entire period.

Whereas, based on the econometric study and the impulse responses, financial accelerating

effects do not dominate in France when studied from a broad time perspective, the particular

chronology of adverse shocks in 2008 and onwards did induce non-negligible credit regime

switches, further depressing economic activity.

16The cost is measured by the cumulated difference between the observed and the simulated GDP growth series

(blue bars on Figure 15).

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5 Discussion and robustness

Different hypotheses and choices are necessary for the estimation, and the identification pro-

cess. Those choices therefore needs to be properly assessed and tested for. Therefore, this

section discusses the robustness of the previous results along different lines: (i) we test for

the proper specification of the model with respect to the stationarity of the variables and the

whiteness of residuals, (ii) we test the choice of the structural ordering, and (iii) we discuss

the choice of the dataset.

5.1 Specification of the model

In order to assess the proper specification of our model, we test for the different underlying

hypotheses of our estimation methodology: the stationarity of the endogenous variables, and

the whiteness of the residuals. Results are presented in Tables 3 to 4.

Table 3 indicates that the stationarity hypothesis is verified for the four variables. Only in-

flation might be considered slightly non-stationary before 1995 and the creation of the EMU.17

With respect to the whiteness of the residuals (cf. Table 4), all tests support the hypothesis

of white noise residuals, except in model B with a number of lag lower than 4. However, the

literature emphasizes the need to test for a large number of lags to increase the power of the

test (usually a multiple of the periodicity of the series, here 4).

In all, those results argue in favour of well-specified models.

5.2 Alternative ordering

In a second step and as presented in Section 3, our identification strategy relies on the choice

of an ex ante ordering, that is a choice of contemporaneous dependences between the different

variables. As a reminder, models A and B rely on the following assumption:

Xt =⇒ ∆ ln GDPt =⇒ ∆ ln CPIt =⇒ ∆rt (6)

This choice reflects the speed of adjustment of banks and financial markets to shocks.

However, this choice is non-standard in the literature, Balke (2000) [3] choosing to put credit

17However, this does not hinder our short-term IRFs results as Phillips (1995) [19] shows that impulse responses

computed from unrestricted VAR with near-unit roots (which is a more extreme situation than ours) have only

inconsistent long-term responses.

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Table 3: Stationarity tests

KPSS ERS Phillips-Perron

Before 2008 Full sample Before 2008 Full sample Before 2008 Full sample

p-val p-val p-val p-val p-val p-val

GDP growth 0,08 S 0,36 S -4,9 <0.01 -5,6 <0.01 -13,8 <0.01 -25,1 <0.01

Inflation 0,72 NS 0,82 NS -7,4 <0.01 -8,7 <0.01 -8,0 0.05 -12,1 0.01

Interest rate (in level) 1,06 NS 1,29 NS -2,7 0.01 -3,3 <0.01 -1,4 0.41 -1,9 0,34

. . . (first differences) 0,16 S 0,10 S -5,5 <0.01 -6,1 <0.01 -84,0 <0.01 -94,3 <0.01

VCAC40 0,16 S 0,07 S -5,3 <0.01 -5,8 <0.01 -13,7 <0.01 -17,6 <0.01

Lending spread (in level) 0,25 S 0,18 S -4,5 <0.01 -5,2 <0.01 -2,4 0,29 -2,7 0,26

. . . (in first differences) 0,20 S 0,10 S -6,4 <0.01 -7,4 <0.01 -85,1 <0.01 -133,3 <0.01

Full sample test were conducted on the full series of residuals, whereas Before 2008 were conducted on series

ending in 2008Q1 to avoid the crisis period non stationary bias.

The null hypothesis tested by the KPSS test is one of stationary series, whereas the Phillips-Perron and Elliot-

Rothenberg-Stock tests test for the presence of a unit root.

For the KPSS test, S indicates that the null hypothesis of stationarity is accepted and NS its rejection at the 10%

level.

Table 4: Multivariate Ljung-Box test for whiteness of the residuals

Model A Model B

lags p-value p-value

4 69,5 0,30 92,2 0,01

6 103,8 0,27 113,3 0,11

8 142,4 0,18 146,4 0,13

10 174,9 0,20 177,0 0,17

12 213,8 0,13 207,6 0,21

The null hypothesis tested by the Ljung-Box test is one of white residuals.

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conditions in the last position, and Calza and Sousa (2006) [9] as the third variable.

With four variables, there is exactly 4! = 24 possible orderings. As a result, we choose

to only focus on Balke’s choice of ordering (∆ ln GDPt =⇒ ∆ ln CPIt =⇒ ∆rt =⇒ Xt) as a

benchmark case. Other choices of orderings for GDP growth, inflation and interest rates are

not discussed here, as it is a common choice in the literature: prices are determined based on

observed GDP growth and the interest rate adjusts in response to inflation. Estimation results

following this alternative choice are presented in Table 5.

Table 5: Results for T-VAR with alternative ordering

Model Credit stress measureEstimated

thresholdAvg-LR Sup-LR Avg-Wald Sup-Wald

% of observations

in standard credit regime

on 2000-2013

A(bis) CAC40 volatility 35.22 56.13 32.73 53.69

m=3, P=1, d=2 γ = 0.0384 (0.14) (0.17) (0.08)* (0.16) 50.9%

B(bis) ∆Lending rate spread 36.28 68.39 33.71 67.05

m=5, P=1, d=3 γ = -0.0200 (0.08)* (0.05)** (0.04)** (0.02)** 63.6%

System includes: the chosen credit stress measure, GDP growth, CPI inflation and the first difference of the

lending interest rate on credits of more than two years to NFCs.

The lending rate spread (in first difference) model is estimated on (1984Q3-2013Q4), and the CAC40 volatility

(in level) model on (1987Q3-2013Q4).

Results are from optimal models with VAR order P, a diffusion delay d, and a moving average of order m.

Statistics Avg-LR and Sup-LR (resp. Avg-Wald and Sup-Wald) correspond to the average and the maximum of

the likelihood ratio (resp. Wald) statistics on the search grid. p-values are shown in parentheses. *** represents

a rejection of the null hypothesis at a 1% level of confidence, ** at a 5% level and * at a 10% level.

Comparing with results in Table 1 shows identical estimated thresholds, VAR lags and

transmission delays. Moreover, non-linearity test results lead to the same conclusion for

model A(bis), where non-linearities are rejected, and model B, accepting the hypothesis of

a non-linear threshold model. Therefore, it appears that results are relatively robust to the

choice of a different ordering of the variables along those dimensions.

However, plotting impulse responses functions for this alternative ordering comforts us in

the choice of our ordering. Actually, although estimation results seem comparable, coefficients

estimated with the alternative ordering lead to unstable impulse response functions in the

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sense of responses opposite to economic intuition.18 This instability of Impulse Response

Functions is a recurrent feature across specifications and datasets as explained in the next

paragraph.

5.3 Dataset and credit conditions indicators

Although the previous stationarity tests show that the lending rate spread in first differences

is indeed stationary, its level was also a (stationary) option. The decision to work with a dif-

ferentiated lending rate spread comes from two reasons. First, levels and first differences do

not convey similar information. Working with a differentiated spread allows to capture the

dynamic in lending behaviours and to identify sudden changes across periods. However, this

choice comes at a price, as it also increases the volatility of our credit stress indicator. Second,

the choice of a first differenced indicator was also kept to ensure the stability of the IRFs.

Actually, this choice allowed us to derive responses conform to economic intuition.

From a broader prospect, this choice highlights a more general statement of the difficulty

to properly model financial - real spheres interactions in a linear or non-linear VAR. Therefore,

due to these difficulties to obtain a well behaved model, a systematic robustness check was

conducted to assess the sensitivity of the results to changes in the model.

First and to clarify our intention, the following (exact or fuzzy) criteria are taken to describe

what we define as a well-behaved model:

• In the first step, the discrimination between a linear and a non-linear model is based on

the following parameters:

– the (formal) likelihood ratio and Wald test statistics

• In a second step, the general proper behaviour of the model is assessed with respect to:

– the conformity of IRFs to economic intuition and mechanisms

– the viability of the estimated coefficients

– and if deemed non-linear,

∗ the % of time in a constrained regime expected to be coherent with ex ante

expectations19

18In particular, in Model B(bis), we observe a systematic increase in GDP following an increase in the lending

spread, that is following a deterioration of credit conditions.19For instance, not more than 50%.

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∗ a reasonable diffusion delay parameter d

As mentioned, we conduct a systematic robustness check and estimate variations of our

models along the following lines:

1. Length of the moving average We allow for a moving average m = 1 . . . 6 quarters. This

choice of parameter is key for the characterization of credit constraints periods by the

model, as it influences the volatility of the underlying credit constraint indicator.

2. Different estimation periods in order to correct for the non-stationarity of the inflation

rate at the beginning of the sample that might potentially bias the relationship between

inflation and the interest rate.

3. Choice of variables

• Inflation: CPI inflation or GDP deflator growth rate.

• Interest rates: 3-month Euribor, French sovereign bond rates, or the lending rate to

NFCs for loans up/less than 2 years.

• Lending interest rate spread between small and large firms: whether with a same

maturity (less than 15000 euros versus more than 1.5 million euros for less than

2 years) or with crossed maturities20 (less than 15000 euros for more than 2 years

versus more than 1.5 million euros for less than 2 years).

4. Transformation applied to the variables: the choice of transformation was mainly

driven by the stationarity properties of each series. However, a variable in level or first

differences conveys a very different information. In particular for credit stress indicators,

an indicator in level measures the level of stress and its persistence at a given date with

respect to the entire sample, whereas the same variable in first difference mainly con-

veys an information on changing behaviours from date to date. An other criterion for

the choice of transformations is the "accounting" homogeneity between variables (stock

or flow) or economic homogeneity (for instance, the traditional Taylor rule implies that

the level of the interest rate is homogeneous with the level of inflation). In the end, we

retain the following alternatives:

• Inflation in level or first difference

• Nominal or real interest rates, in level or first difference20The idea behind this choice is to take into account both the facts that mainly small firms borrow small amounts

with long maturities, and that only large firms are able to borrow large amounts with short maturities.

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• Lending spreads in level or first difference

5. Choice of ordering: We allow for an alternative choice of ordering as presented in the

previous subsection.

In all, the systematic estimation of those different variations of our model highlights the

difficulty to construct a well-behaved model taking into account the effect of financial variables

over the real economy in the case of France.

Indeed, the models presented in Section 4 are models selected among the full set of esti-

mated models for their properties. Other models were rejected as they do not fulfil the set of

conditions imposed above. In particular, a recurring result is the difficulty to obtain proper

impulse response functions of GDP to credit stress shocks, both in linear or non-linear VAR

models. In most cases, a deterioration of the credit environment leads to a counter-intuitive

increase in the growth rate of GDP.

These compelling results may reflect three different explanations:

1. The absence of financial phenomenon in France over the considered period, so that we

are indeed incapable to capture them. The weak evidence presented in our models

corroborate this possibility. However, the important developments of financial markets

in France over the last two decades question this statement.

2. The inadequacy of VAR and TVAR models to capture the transmission of financial

shocks to the real economy. However, the identification of non-linearities in the United

States by Balke (2000) [3] and in the European union by Calza and Sousa (2006) [9] with

the same methodology tends to oppose this view.

3. The inadequacy of our credit stress variables to describe the financial mechanisms at

work in France. Again, as we construct our credit indicators close to the ones used

by Balke (2000), this reason seems weak. However, this could also mean that financial

mechanisms as identified by the lending interest rate spread and the volatility of the

CAC40 are not relevant for France, and that other financial phenomenons may be at

work.

Note that a previous version of this paper (see Alhenc-Gelas et al. (2014) [1]) develops

the same methodology on monthly series using four different credit indicators: namely, the

VSTOXX50 index, a bank lending spread between small and large firms, the difference in

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the growth rate of new loans between small and large firms and the bank margin spread on

new loans with respect to the EURIBOR 3 months from 2000 to 2013. They arrive to similar

conclusions: on monthly data, three out of four models identify non-linearities based on the

tests but do not exhibit significant differentiated responses across regimes. As such, this is in

line with evidence provided here of the weak role of financial acceleration in France.

6 Conclusion

Using French aggregate data over the period 1987-2013, we assess the importance of financial

accelerator phenomenons and the cost of credit conditions during the recent crises. Replicat-

ing the threshold-VAR methodology of Balke (2000) [3] for a large number of potential models,

the use of Generalized Impulse Responses and a new yet simple contribution analysis over the

recent periods allows to give a few insights on financial-real economy interactions in France.

The formal test identification of the existence of non-linearities contrasts with the absence

of differentiated responses across regimes in the impulse responses functions, and cast doubts

on the importance of financial acceleration in the link between credit and activity in France

when considered over the entire period. However, even though Kremp and Sevestre (2012)

[17] or Cabannes et al. (2013) [8] argue in favour of an absence of credit constraints in France

during the 2008 crises at the microeconomic (partial equilibrium) level, we estimate that the

macroeconomic (general equilibrium) impact of deteriorated financial conditions might have

been responsible since 2008 for a cumulated loss of 0.5% due to financial markets stresses or 2%

of GDP growth due to flight to quality.

These results seem in line with those of Calza and Sousa (2006) [9] identifying a minor

influence of non-linearities arising from European credit market imperfections on activity. Fo-

cusing here on France, we show the absence of strong non-linearities and financial acceleration

effects. However, conclusions are fragile and we perform a detailed robustness analysis with

respect to the specification of the model.

Using different input datasets, we stress that across all model specifications (with changes

in the input variables, their transformation, etc.) obtaining a well-behaved model, both in terms

of econometric and economic properties (that is well-specified and economically valid) is a

difficult task. Results presented in this paper correspond to the specific selection of such

well-behaved models. This estimation difficulty might reflect either the inadequacy of VAR

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and TVAR for capturing the impact of financial shocks on the real economy. A more likely

hypothesis is that the financial transmission channels at work are different in France than

those captured by our indicators and that further research needs to be conducted.

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Appendix A Maximum Likelihood Estimation equivalence and LR

testing

Non-linear VAR models are usually estimated by Maximum Likelihood Estimation, therefore

requiring an additional assumption on the distribution of the residuals. In our model, if we

assume Gaussian disturbances, the likelihood of Yt conditionally on Yt−1, Yt−2, . . . writes:

f (Yt|Yt−1, Yt−2, . . . ) =1

(2π)N2 |Var(U)| 12

exp−12 Ut′Var(U)−1Ut (7)

where N = 4 is the length of Yt, and Ut are the structural disturbances in Equation 1. In

addition, if we assume independence, the sample log-likelihood writes21

lnLt(θ, γ, d) =1

T − p

T

∑t=p+1

ln f (Yt|Yt−1, Yt−2, . . . )

= −N2

ln 2π − 12

ln |Var(U)| − 12(T − p)

T

∑t=p+1

Ut′Var(U)−1

Ut

= −N2

ln 2π − 12

ln |Var(U)|+ constant

(8)

since Var(U) =1

T − p

T

∑t=p+1

UtUt′ (9)

In the end, the Maximum Likelihood Estimator is (θ, γ, d) = argmin(θ,γ,d)

12 ln Var(U), which corre-

sponds to the log-determinant criterion described above. Hence, the grid search approach used

in this paper is a discrete equivalent of a Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Gaussian

residuals.

This likelihood maximisation approach is also fully compatible for Likelihood Ratio testing.

Indeed, for a given couple (γ, d), the test statistics is given by Equation 4. If (γ, d) is known,

it follows a standard χ2(k) distribution with k being the number of parameters constrained in

the null hypothesis.22

Moreover, as LR(γ,d) is a decreasing function of det Σ|estimated TVAR, the choice of (γ, d)

as minimising det Σ|estimated TVAR also implies the maximisation of LR(γ,d). As a result, the

final test statistic is intuitively close to the maximisation over dmax Nγ distinct asymptotic χ2

random variables (ie. the LR(γ,d)), and is fully coherent with the (γ, d)-selection criterion.

Note that this final distribution will be “greater” than the standard χ2(k). Therefore, it we

do not reject H0 using a χ2(k), we would not reject using the true distribution.

21As Var(U) is a variance-covariance matrix, it is symmetric definite positive and can be diagonalized.22Here, we have k = 4 + 6 + 16p.

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In addition, Andrews and Ploberger (1994)[2] show the two avg−LR and sup−LR statis-

tics are the limit cases of a more general form of average exponential test statistics.23 Whereas

avg−LR is designed for alternatives Ha close to H0, sup−LR is suitable for alternatives far

from the null hypothesis.

Appendix B Test statistics distribution: bootstrapping algorithm

As explained in Section 3, in our TVAR framework, usual test statistics are non-standard.

Therefore, the distributions need to be simulated. We follow Hansen (1999) algorithm.

1. Generate a random shock sample εkk=1...T−p from the estimated residuals of the linear

VAR model.

2. Recursively generate a bootstrapped sample Y∗k=p+1...T with the estimated linear model

using: the fixed initial conditions Y1, Y2, . . . , Yp and the sequence of random shocks

εkk=1...T−p.

3. Compute the two LR∗ statistics on this simulated sample.

4. Repeat Steps 1 to 3 a large number of times (N = 500) and finally determine p-values as

the percentage of simulated test statistics LR∗ that are greater than the true LR.

Appendix C Evolution of the probability to be in the stressed credit

regime

An other tool for studying switches between credit regimes in model B is the Impulse Re-

sponse Function of the indicator function Ict−d≥γ, that is the evolution of the probability to be

in the stressed credit regime. As for GIRFs, responses are computed following Koop, Pesaran

and Potter [16] methodology and are conditional on an initial credit regime. However, as

mentioned in previous section, responses are very similar across regimes and we choose to

23Average exponential test statistics take the form: exp− LR = (1 + c)−p2∫∫

exp 12

c1+cLR(γ,d)dJ1(γ)dJ2(d)

where p is the number of parameters being tested in the null hypothesis, c is a constant and J1 and J2 are weight

functions over γ and d. The avg−LR and the sup−LR are respectively obtained after renormalisation, for c→ 0

and for c → ∞. In the case of a grid search, J1 and J2 are discrete functions uniformly distributing weights over

all tested values of γ and d.

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(a) Shock of GDP (b) Shock of inflation

(c) Shock of interest rate (d) Shock of lending spread

Figure 17: Probability to be in the stressed credit regime following two standard errors

deviation shocks

present in Figure 17 the weighted average of responses across regimes.24

We notice that excepting credit variable shocks, even two standard deviations shocks of

inflation, GDP and interest rate have a low impact on the probability of being in the un-

favourable credit regime. Indeed, a large unfavourable shock (+2SD) to the lending spread

can raise the probability of being in the stressed credit regime by more than 30 p.p. However,

even if being of lower impact, GDP shocks have an impact of almost 7 p.p. on this probability.

Therefore, model B shows mild evidence of the importance of other economic shocks for the

evolution of credit regimes.

24Weight for the standard (resp. stressed) regime corresponds to the percentage of periods identified as being in

the standard (resp. stressed) credit regime.

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Lastly, convergence to the long run probability is achieved after 10 quarters (excluding

the first three quarters corresponding to the transmission delay of shocks to the indicator

function).

Appendix D GIRFs bootstrapping algorithm

The TVAR model being non-linear, responses of endogenous variables depend on initial con-

ditions and past history. To overcome this issue and be able to evaluate history independent

response of endogenous variables, we turn to Koop, Pesaran and Potter (1996) methodology.

Denote K the maximum horizon.

1. The set of possible initial conditions over Y is separated into two sets according to each

possible regime. We construct IC0 = Yt|1ct−d>γ = 0 and IC1 = Yt|1ct−d>γ = 1.We will compute two generalised impulse responses to the shock ut, conditionally on

each initial regime.

2. For each subset of initial conditions IC, repeat steps 3 to 7

3. For each initial conditions ict in the chosen subset IC, repeat steps 4 to 6 a large number

of times (N=500)

4. Draw a time series of shocks εs for s = 1 . . . K from the estimated TVAR residuals, and

∀k ∈ 1 . . . K, simulate the path Yt+k|ict, εss=1...k with respect to the selected initial

condition ic and the series εss=1...k.

5. ∀k ∈ 1 . . . K, similarly compute Yt+k|ut, ict, εss=1...k adding a one standard deviation

shock ut at time t.

6. Compute the impulse response conditional on ict and εkk=1...K

GIRFk(ut|ic, εss=1...k) = Yt+k|ut, ict, εss=1...k −Yt+k|ict, εss=1...k (10)

7. Compute the generalised (unconditional) impulse response by averaging GIRFk(ut) over

all initial conditions and all bootstrapped shocks series.

Appendix E Balke (2000) non-linear contribution methodology

In a linear model, it is equivalent to dynamically simulate the model with one type of shocks

at a time (here GDP, inflation, interest rate or credit conditions) and add them ex post, or to

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simulate with multiple shocks. Due to the linearity property, the four independent contribu-

tions25 add up to the observed value of GDP growth.

In a non-linear model, this adding up property does not hold any longer and the anal-

ysis of contributions appears more complicated. Relying on the previous approach, Balke

(2000) proposes a decomposition methodology. He computes the dynamically simulated GDP

growth for each type of shocks. The remaining difference between the sum of the four contri-

butions and the observed value of GDP growth, quoting:

"reflects the interaction among the shocks that is inherent in the non-linear structure of the threshold

VAR. [...] the remainder term represents, in part, the contribution of switching credit regimes to the

non-linear propagation of shocks."

However, this interpretation of the remainder as the contribution of non-linearity to GDP

growth is misleading. It is indeed only accounting "in part" for non-linearities. Actually, each

of the standard four contributions26 also includes switching regimes and a non-linear propa-

gation of shocks in the economy. Therefore, the remainder cannot be interpreted neither as a

lower or upper bound to the economic effect of non-linearities in the propagation of shocks.

As a result, we depart in our study from this methodology, and study contributions of credit

shocks in a different framework.

Appendix F Estimated coefficients

25Formally, we also need to include an exponentially converging initial condition representing the propagation

of the first observed value in the absence of shocks.26Denominated Change in the forecast Function in Balke (2000).

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(a) Coefficients

Constant VCAC40(t) GDP(t) Inflation(t) R(t) VCAC40(t-1) GDP(t-1) Inflation(t-1) R(t-1)

C A B

VCAC40(t) 0,03 0 0 0 0 0,15 -0,01 0,43 0,00

∆lnGDP(t) 0,25 -1,87 0 0 0 -1,72 0,61 3,11 -0,35

Inflation(t) 0,00 -0,02 0,00 0 0 0,01 0,00 0,45 0,00

∆R(t) -0,23 -0,76 0,08 9,29 0 -0,46 0,17 14,29 0,25

(b) T-stat

Constant VCAC40(t) GDP(t) Inflation(t) R(t) VCAC40(t-1) GDP(t-1) Inflation(t-1) R(t-1)

C A B

VCAC40(t) 5,21 1,49 -1,49 0,56 0,65

∆lnGDP(t) 1,83 -0,93 -0,85 7,37 0,20 -2,94

Inflation(t) 2,71 -1,85 0,89 1,21 1,04 4,94 0,38

∆R(t) -1,98 -0,47 0,99 0,70 -0,29 2,05 1,08 2,59

Table 6: Estimation results for linear model A

(a) Coefficients

Constant Spread(t) GDP(t) Inflation(t) R(t) Spread(t-1) GDP(t-1) Inflation(t-1) R(t-1)

C1 A1 B1

∆Spread(t) 0,33 0 0 0 0 -0,08 -0,57 6,56 0,60

∆lnGDP(t) 0,26 -0,40 0 0 0 0,22 0,43 3,15 -0,20

Inflation(t) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0,00 0,00 0,36 0,00

∆R(t) -0,12 -0,14 0,04 6,30 0 -0,25 0,12 4,67 0,33

C2 A2 B2

∆Spread(t) -0,56 0 0 0 0 -0,01 0,70 8,18 -0,81

∆lnGDP(t) -0,01 0,52 0 0 0 -0,46 0,13 -12,69 0,12

Inflation(t) 0,00 0,00 0,00 0 0 0,00 0,00 0,20 0,00

∆R(t) -0,10 0,25 0,18 -5,70 0 -0,20 -0,33 20,30 -0,06

(b) T-stat

Constant Spread(t) GDP(t) Inflation(t) R(t) Spread(t-1) GDP(t-1) Inflation(t-1) R(t-1)

C1 A1 B1

∆Spread(t) 2,24 -0,59 -3,99 0,25 3,19

∆lnGDP(t) 2,21 -3,72 2,18 3,42 0,16 -1,28

Inflation(t) 3,68 -1,20 -0,15 0,02 0,63 2,68 0,33

∆R(t) -1,14 -1,49 0,39 0,44 -3,19 1,09 0,29 2,68

C2 A2 B2

∆Spread(t) -2,62 -0,07 3,47 0,24 -3,12

∆lnGDP(t) -0,03 3,46 -3,19 0,81 -0,48 0,57

Inflation(t) -1,99 0,39 0,82 1,18 0,39 1,10 -0,77

∆R(t) -0,68 1,99 1,16 -0,24 -1,71 -2,22 0,86 -0,37

Table 7: Estimation results for model B

Appendix G Impulse Response Functions in model A

(a) Response of GDP (b) Response of inflation

(c) Response of the interest rate (d) Response of the VCAC40

Figure 18: Impulse Responses to a one standard error deviation shock of GDP growth

(a) Response of GDP (b) Response of inflation

(c) Response of the interest rate (d) Response of the VCAC40

Figure 19: Impulse Responses to a one standard error deviation shock of inflation

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(a) Response of GDP (b) Response of inflation

(c) Response of the interest rate (d) Response of the VCAC40

Figure 20: Impulse Responses to a one standard error deviation shock of the first difference of the

interest rate

(a) Response of GDP (b) Response of inflation

(c) Response of the interest rate (d) Response of the VCAC40

Figure 21: Impulse Responses to a one standard error deviation shock of VCAC40

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Appendix H Impulse Response Functions in model B

(a) Response of GDP - Initial standard

regime

(b) Response of GDP - Initial stressed

regime

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G 9001 J. FAYOLLE et M. FLEURBAEY Accumulation, profitabilité et endettement des entreprises

G 9002 H. ROUSSE Détection et effets de la multicolinéarité dans les modèles linéaires ordinaires - Un prolongement de la réflexion de BELSLEY, KUH et WELSCH

G 9003 P. RALLE et J. TOUJAS-BERNATE Indexation des salaires : la rupture de 1983

G 9004 D. GUELLEC et P. RALLE Compétitivité, croissance et innovation de produit

G 9005 P. RALLE et J. TOUJAS-BERNATE Les conséquences de la désindexation. Analyse dans une maquette prix-salaires

G 9101 Équipe AMADEUS Le modèle AMADEUS - Première partie -Présentation générale

G 9102 J.L. BRILLET Le modèle AMADEUS - Deuxième partie -Propriétés variantielles

G 9103 D. GUELLEC et P. RALLE Endogenous growth and product innovation

G 9104 H. ROUSSE Le modèle AMADEUS - Troisième partie - Le commerce extérieur et l'environnement international

G 9105 H. ROUSSE Effets de demande et d'offre dans les résultats du commerce extérieur manufacturé de la France au cours des deux dernières décennies

G 9106 B. CREPON Innovation, taille et concentration : causalités et dynamiques

G 9107 B. AMABLE et D. GUELLEC Un panorama des théories de la croissance endogène

G 9108 M. GLAUDE et M. MOUTARDIER Une évaluation du coût direct de l'enfant de 1979 à 1989

G 9109 P. RALLE et alii France - Allemagne : performances économi-ques comparées

G 9110 J.L. BRILLET Micro-DMS NON PARU

G 9111 A. MAGNIER Effets accélérateur et multiplicateur en France depuis 1970 : quelques résultats empiriques

G 9112 B. CREPON et G. DUREAU Investissement en recherche-développement : analyse de causalités dans un modèle d'accélé-rateur généralisé

G 9113 J.L. BRILLET, H. ERKEL-ROUSSE, J. TOUJAS-BERNATE "France-Allemagne Couplées" - Deux économies vues par une maquette macro-économétrique

G 9201 W.J. ADAMS, B. CREPON, D. ENCAOUA Choix technologiques et stratégies de dissuasion d'entrée

G 9202 J. OLIVEIRA-MARTINS, J. TOUJAS-BERNATE

Macro-economic import functions with imperfect competition - An application to the E.C. Trade

G 9203 I. STAPIC Les échanges internationaux de services de la France dans le cadre des négociations multila-térales du GATT Juin 1992 (1ère version) Novembre 1992 (version finale)

G 9204 P. SEVESTRE L'économétrie sur données individuelles-temporelles. Une note introductive

G 9205 H. ERKEL-ROUSSE Le commerce extérieur et l'environnement in-ternational dans le modèle AMADEUS (réestimation 1992)

G 9206 N. GREENAN et D. GUELLEC Coordination within the firm and endogenous growth

G 9207 A. MAGNIER et J. TOUJAS-BERNATE Technology and trade: empirical evidences for the major five industrialized countries

G 9208 B. CREPON, E. DUGUET, D. ENCAOUA et P. MOHNEN Cooperative, non cooperative R & D and optimal patent life

G 9209 B. CREPON et E. DUGUET Research and development, competition and innovation: an application of pseudo maximum likelihood methods to Poisson models with heterogeneity

G 9301 J. TOUJAS-BERNATE Commerce international et concurrence impar-faite : développements récents et implications pour la politique commerciale

G 9302 Ch. CASES Durées de chômage et comportements d'offre de travail : une revue de la littérature

G 9303 H. ERKEL-ROUSSE Union économique et monétaire : le débat économique

G 9304 N. GREENAN - D. GUELLEC / G. BROUSSAUDIER - L. MIOTTI Innovation organisationnelle, dynamisme tech-nologique et performances des entreprises

G 9305 P. JAILLARD Le traité de Maastricht : présentation juridique et historique

G 9306 J.L. BRILLET Micro-DMS : présentation et propriétés

G 9307 J.L. BRILLET Micro-DMS - variantes : les tableaux

G 9308 S. JACOBZONE Les grands réseaux publics français dans une perspective européenne

G 9309 L. BLOCH - B. CŒURE Profitabilité de l'investissement productif et transmission des chocs financiers

G 9310 J. BOURDIEU - B. COLIN-SEDILLOT Les théories sur la structure optimale du capital : quelques points de repère

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G 9311 J. BOURDIEU - B. COLIN-SEDILLOT Les décisions de financement des entreprises françaises : une évaluation empirique des théo-ries de la structure optimale du capital

G 9312 L. BLOCH - B. CŒURÉ Q de Tobin marginal et transmission des chocs financiers

G 9313 Équipes Amadeus (INSEE), Banque de France, Métric (DP) Présentation des propriétés des principaux mo-dèles macroéconomiques du Service Public

G 9314 B. CREPON - E. DUGUET Research & Development, competition and innovation

G 9315 B. DORMONT Quelle est l'influence du coût du travail sur l'emploi ?

G 9316 D. BLANCHET - C. BROUSSE Deux études sur l'âge de la retraite

G 9317 D. BLANCHET Répartition du travail dans une population hété-rogène : deux notes

G 9318 D. EYSSARTIER - N. PONTY AMADEUS - an annual macro-economic model for the medium and long term

G 9319 G. CETTE - Ph. CUNÉO - D. EYSSARTIER -J. GAUTIÉ Les effets sur l'emploi d'un abaissement du coût du travail des jeunes

G 9401 D. BLANCHET Les structures par âge importent-elles ?

G 9402 J. GAUTIÉ Le chômage des jeunes en France : problème de formation ou phénomène de file d'attente ? Quelques éléments du débat

G 9403 P. QUIRION Les déchets en France : éléments statistiques et économiques

G 9404 D. LADIRAY - M. GRUN-REHOMME Lissage par moyennes mobiles - Le problème des extrémités de série

G 9405 V. MAILLARD Théorie et pratique de la correction des effets de jours ouvrables

G 9406 F. ROSENWALD La décision d'investir

G 9407 S. JACOBZONE Les apports de l'économie industrielle pour dé-finir la stratégie économique de l'hôpital public

G 9408 L. BLOCH, J. BOURDIEU, B. COLIN-SEDILLOT, G. LONGUEVILLE Du défaut de paiement au dépôt de bilan : les banquiers face aux PME en difficulté

G 9409 D. EYSSARTIER, P. MAIRE Impacts macro-économiques de mesures d'aide au logement - quelques éléments d'évaluation

G 9410 F. ROSENWALD Suivi conjoncturel de l'investissement

G 9411 C. DEFEUILLEY - Ph. QUIRION Les déchets d'emballages ménagers : une

analyse économique des politiques française et allemande

G 9412 J. BOURDIEU - B. CŒURÉ - B. COLIN-SEDILLOT Investissement, incertitude et irréversibilité Quelques développements récents de la théorie de l'investissement

G 9413 B. DORMONT - M. PAUCHET L'évaluation de l'élasticité emploi-salaire dépend-elle des structures de qualification ?

G 9414 I. KABLA Le Choix de breveter une invention

G 9501 J. BOURDIEU - B. CŒURÉ - B. SEDILLOT Irreversible Investment and Uncertainty: When is there a Value of Waiting?

G 9502 L. BLOCH - B. CŒURÉ Imperfections du marché du crédit, investisse-ment des entreprises et cycle économique

G 9503 D. GOUX - E. MAURIN Les transformations de la demande de travail par qualification en France Une étude sur la période 1970-1993

G 9504 N. GREENAN Technologie, changement organisationnel, qua-lifications et emploi : une étude empirique sur l'industrie manufacturière

G 9505 D. GOUX - E. MAURIN Persistance des hiérarchies sectorielles de sa-laires: un réexamen sur données françaises

G 9505 D. GOUX - E. MAURIN Bis Persistence of inter-industry wages differentials:

a reexamination on matched worker-firm panel data

G 9506 S. JACOBZONE Les liens entre RMI et chômage, une mise en perspective NON PARU - article sorti dans Économie et Prévision n° 122 (1996) - pages 95 à 113

G 9507 G. CETTE - S. MAHFOUZ Le partage primaire du revenu Constat descriptif sur longue période

G 9601 Banque de France - CEPREMAP - Direction de la Prévision - Érasme - INSEE - OFCE Structures et propriétés de cinq modèles macro-économiques français

G 9602 Rapport d’activité de la DESE de l’année 1995

G 9603 J. BOURDIEU - A. DRAZNIEKS L’octroi de crédit aux PME : une analyse à partir d’informations bancaires

G 9604 A. TOPIOL-BENSAÏD Les implantations japonaises en France

G 9605 P. GENIER - S. JACOBZONE Comportements de prévention, consommation d’alcool et tabagie : peut-on parler d’une gestion globale du capital santé ? Une modélisation microéconométrique empirique

G 9606 C. DOZ - F. LENGLART Factor analysis and unobserved component models: an application to the study of French business surveys

G 9607 N. GREENAN - D. GUELLEC La théorie coopérative de la firme

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G 9608 N. GREENAN - D. GUELLEC Technological innovation and employment reallocation

G 9609 Ph. COUR - F. RUPPRECHT L’intégration asymétrique au sein du continent américain : un essai de modélisation

G 9610 S. DUCHENE - G. FORGEOT - A. JACQUOT Analyse des évolutions récentes de la producti-vité apparente du travail

G 9611 X. BONNET - S. MAHFOUZ The influence of different specifications of wages-prices spirals on the measure of the NAIRU: the case of France

G 9612 PH. COUR - E. DUBOIS, S. MAHFOUZ, J. PISANI-FERRY The cost of fiscal retrenchment revisited: how strong is the evidence?

G 9613 A. JACQUOT Les flexions des taux d’activité sont-elles seule-ment conjoncturelles ?

G 9614 ZHANG Yingxiang - SONG Xueqing Lexique macroéconomique Français-Chinois

G 9701 J.L. SCHNEIDER La taxe professionnelle : éléments de cadrage économique

G 9702 J.L. SCHNEIDER Transition et stabilité politique d’un système redistributif

G 9703 D. GOUX - E. MAURIN Train or Pay: Does it Reduce Inequalities to En-courage Firms to Train their Workers?

G 9704 P. GENIER Deux contributions sur dépendance et équité

G 9705 E. DUGUET - N. IUNG R & D Investment, Patent Life and Patent Value An Econometric Analysis at the Firm Level

G 9706 M. HOUDEBINE - A. TOPIOL-BENSAÏD Les entreprises internationales en France : une analyse à partir de données individuelles

G 9707 M. HOUDEBINE Polarisation des activités et spécialisation des départements en France

G 9708 E. DUGUET - N. GREENAN Le biais technologique : une analyse sur don-nées individuelles

G 9709 J.L. BRILLET Analyzing a small French ECM Model

G 9710 J.L. BRILLET Formalizing the transition process: scenarios for capital accumulation

G 9711 G. FORGEOT - J. GAUTIÉ Insertion professionnelle des jeunes et proces-sus de déclassement

G 9712 E. DUBOIS High Real Interest Rates: the Consequence of a Saving Investment Disequilibrium or of an in-sufficient Credibility of Monetary Authorities?

G 9713 Bilan des activités de la Direction des Études et Synthèses Économiques - 1996

G 9714 F. LEQUILLER Does the French Consumer Price Index Over-state Inflation?

G 9715 X. BONNET Peut-on mettre en évidence les rigidités à la baisse des salaires nominaux ? Une étude sur quelques grands pays de l’OCDE

G 9716 N. IUNG - F. RUPPRECHT Productivité de la recherche et rendements d’échelle dans le secteur pharmaceutique français

G 9717 E. DUGUET - I. KABLA Appropriation strategy and the motivations to use the patent system in France - An econometric analysis at the firm level

G 9718 L.P. PELÉ - P. RALLE Âge de la retraite : les aspects incitatifs du ré-gime général

G 9719 ZHANG Yingxiang - SONG Xueqing Lexique macroéconomique français-chinois, chinois-français

G 9720 M. HOUDEBINE - J.L. SCHNEIDER Mesurer l’influence de la fiscalité sur la locali-sation des entreprises

G 9721 A. MOUROUGANE Crédibilité, indépendance et politique monétaire Une revue de la littérature

G 9722 P. AUGERAUD - L. BRIOT Les données comptables d’entreprises Le système intermédiaire d’entreprises Passage des données individuelles aux données sectorielles

G 9723 P. AUGERAUD - J.E. CHAPRON Using Business Accounts for Compiling National Accounts: the French Experience

G 9724 P. AUGERAUD Les comptes d’entreprise par activités - Le pas-sage aux comptes - De la comptabilité d’entreprise à la comptabilité nationale - A paraître

G 9801 H. MICHAUDON - C. PRIGENT Présentation du modèle AMADEUS

G 9802 J. ACCARDO Une étude de comptabilité générationnelle pour la France en 1996

G 9803 X. BONNET - S. DUCHÊNE Apports et limites de la modélisation « Real Business Cycles »

G 9804 C. BARLET - C. DUGUET - D. ENCAOUA - J. PRADEL The Commercial Success of Innovations An econometric analysis at the firm level in French manufacturing

G 9805 P. CAHUC - Ch. GIANELLA - D. GOUX - A. ZILBERBERG Equalizing Wage Differences and Bargaining Power - Evidence form a Panel of French Firms

G 9806 J. ACCARDO - M. JLASSI La productivité globale des facteurs entre 1975 et 1996

G 9807 Bilan des activités de la Direction des Études et Synthèses Économiques - 1997

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G 9808 A. MOUROUGANE Can a Conservative Governor Conduct an Ac-comodative Monetary Policy?

G 9809 X. BONNET - E. DUBOIS - L. FAUVET Asymétrie des inflations relatives et menus costs : tests sur l’inflation française

G 9810 E. DUGUET - N. IUNG Sales and Advertising with Spillovers at the firm level: Estimation of a Dynamic Structural Model on Panel Data

G 9811 J.P. BERTHIER Congestion urbaine : un modèle de trafic de pointe à courbe débit-vitesse et demande élastique

G 9812 C. PRIGENT La part des salaires dans la valeur ajoutée : une approche macroéconomique

G 9813 A.Th. AERTS L’évolution de la part des salaires dans la valeur ajoutée en France reflète-t-elle les évolutions individuelles sur la période 1979-1994 ?

G 9814 B. SALANIÉ Guide pratique des séries non-stationnaires

G 9901 S. DUCHÊNE - A. JACQUOT Une croissance plus riche en emplois depuis le début de la décennie ? Une analyse en compa-raison internationale

G 9902 Ch. COLIN Modélisation des carrières dans Destinie

G 9903 Ch. COLIN Évolution de la dispersion des salaires : un essai de prospective par microsimulation

G 9904 B. CREPON - N. IUNG Innovation, emploi et performances

G 9905 B. CREPON - Ch. GIANELLA Wages inequalities in France 1969-1992 An application of quantile regression techniques

G 9906 C. BONNET - R. MAHIEU Microsimulation techniques applied to inter-generational transfers - Pensions in a dynamic framework: the case of France

G 9907 F. ROSENWALD L’impact des contraintes financières dans la dé-cision d’investissement

G 9908 Bilan des activités de la DESE - 1998

G 9909 J.P. ZOYEM Contrat d’insertion et sortie du RMI Évaluation des effets d’une politique sociale

G 9910 Ch. COLIN - Fl. LEGROS - R. MAHIEU Bilans contributifs comparés des régimes de retraite du secteur privé et de la fonction publique

G 9911 G. LAROQUE - B. SALANIÉ Une décomposition du non-emploi en France

G 9912 B. SALANIÉ Une maquette analytique de long terme du marché du travail

G 9912 Ch. GIANELLA Bis Une estimation de l’élasticité de l’emploi peu

qualifié à son coût

G 9913 Division « Redistribution et Politiques Sociales » Le modèle de microsimulation dynamique DESTINIE

G 9914 E. DUGUET Macro-commandes SAS pour l’économétrie des panels et des variables qualitatives

G 9915 R. DUHAUTOIS Évolution des flux d’emplois en France entre 1990 et 1996 : une étude empirique à partir du fichier des bénéfices réels normaux (BRN)

G 9916 J.Y. FOURNIER Extraction du cycle des affaires : la méthode de Baxter et King

G 9917 B. CRÉPON - R. DESPLATZ - J. MAIRESSE Estimating price cost margins, scale economies and workers’ bargaining power at the firm level

G 9918 Ch. GIANELLA - Ph. LAGARDE Productivity of hours in the aggregate production function: an evaluation on a panel of French firms from the manufacturing sector

G 9919 S. AUDRIC - P. GIVORD - C. PROST Évolution de l’emploi et des coûts par quali-fication entre 1982 et 1996

G 2000/01 R. MAHIEU Les déterminants des dépenses de santé : une approche macroéconomique

G 2000/02 C. ALLARD-PRIGENT - H. GUILMEAU - A. QUINET The real exchange rate as the relative price of nontrables in terms of tradables: theoretical investigation and empirical study on French data

G 2000/03 J.-Y. FOURNIER L’approximation du filtre passe-bande proposée par Christiano et Fitzgerald

G 2000/04 Bilan des activités de la DESE - 1999

G 2000/05 B. CREPON - F. ROSENWALD Investissement et contraintes de financement : le poids du cycle Une estimation sur données françaises

G 2000/06 A. FLIPO Les comportements matrimoniaux de fait

G 2000/07 R. MAHIEU - B. SÉDILLOT Microsimulations of the retirement decision: a supply side approach

G 2000/08 C. AUDENIS - C. PROST Déficit conjoncturel : une prise en compte des conjonctures passées

G 2000/09 R. MAHIEU - B. SÉDILLOT Équivalent patrimonial de la rente et souscription de retraite complémentaire

G 2000/10 R. DUHAUTOIS Ralentissement de l’investissement : petites ou grandes entreprises ? industrie ou tertiaire ?

G 2000/11 G. LAROQUE - B. SALANIÉ Temps partiel féminin et incitations financières à l’emploi

G2000/12 Ch. GIANELLA Local unemployment and wages

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G2000/13 B. CREPON - Th. HECKEL - Informatisation en France : une évaluation à partir de données individuelles - Computerization in France: an evaluation based on individual company data

G2001/01 F. LEQUILLER - La nouvelle économie et la mesure de la croissance du PIB - The new economy and the measure ment of GDP growth

G2001/02 S. AUDRIC La reprise de la croissance de l’emploi profite-t-elle aussi aux non-diplômés ?

G2001/03 I. BRAUN-LEMAIRE Évolution et répartition du surplus de productivité

G2001/04 A. BEAUDU - Th. HECKEL Le canal du crédit fonctionne-t-il en Europe ? Une étude de l’hétérogénéité des com-portements d’investissement à partir de données de bilan agrégées

G2001/05 C. AUDENIS - P. BISCOURP - N. FOURCADE - O. LOISEL Testing the augmented Solow growth model: An empirical reassessment using panel data

G2001/06 R. MAHIEU - B. SÉDILLOT Départ à la retraite, irréversibilité et incertitude

G2001/07 Bilan des activités de la DESE - 2000

G2001/08 J. Ph. GAUDEMET Les dispositifs d’acquisition à titre facultatif d’annuités viagères de retraite

G2001/09 B. CRÉPON - Ch. GIANELLA Fiscalité, coût d’usage du capital et demande de facteurs : une analyse sur données individuelles

G2001/10 B. CRÉPON - R. DESPLATZ Évaluation des effets des dispositifs d’allégements de charges sociales sur les bas salaires

G2001/11 J.-Y. FOURNIER Comparaison des salaires des secteurs public et privé

G2001/12 J.-P. BERTHIER - C. JAULENT R. CONVENEVOLE - S. PISANI Une méthodologie de comparaison entre consommations intermédiaires de source fiscale et de comptabilité nationale

G2001/13 P. BISCOURP - Ch. GIANELLA Substitution and complementarity between capital, skilled and less skilled workers: an analysis at the firm level in the French manufacturing industry

G2001/14 I. ROBERT-BOBEE Modelling demographic behaviours in the French microsimulation model Destinie: An analysis of future change in completed fertility

G2001/15 J.-P. ZOYEM Diagnostic sur la pauvreté et calendrier de revenus : le cas du “Panel européen des ménages »

G2001/16 J.-Y. FOURNIER - P. GIVORD La réduction des taux d’activité aux âges extrêmes, une spécificité française ?

G2001/17 C. AUDENIS - P. BISCOURP - N. RIEDINGER Existe-t-il une asymétrie dans la transmission du prix du brut aux prix des carburants ?

G2002/01 F. MAGNIEN - J.-L. TAVERNIER - D. THESMAR Les statistiques internationales de PIB par habitant en standard de pouvoir d’achat : une analyse des résultats

G2002/02 Bilan des activités de la DESE - 2001

G2002/03 B. SÉDILLOT - E. WALRAET La cessation d’activité au sein des couples : y a-t-il interdépendance des choix ?

G2002/04 G. BRILHAULT - Rétropolation des séries de FBCF et calcul du

capital fixe en SEC-95 dans les comptes nationaux français

- Retropolation of the investment series (GFCF) and estimation of fixed capital stocks on the ESA-95 basis for the French balance sheets

G2002/05 P. BISCOURP - B. CRÉPON - T. HECKEL - N. RIEDINGER How do firms respond to cheaper computers? Microeconometric evidence for France based on a production function approach

G2002/06 C. AUDENIS - J. DEROYON - N. FOURCADE L’impact des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication sur l’économie française - un bouclage macro-économique

G2002/07 J. BARDAJI - B. SÉDILLOT - E. WALRAET Évaluation de trois réformes du Régime Général d’assurance vieillesse à l’aide du modèle de microsimulation DESTINIE

G2002/08 J.-P. BERTHIER Réflexions sur les différentes notions de volume dans les comptes nationaux : comptes aux prix d’une année fixe ou aux prix de l’année précédente, séries chaînées

G2002/09 F. HILD Les soldes d’opinion résument-ils au mieux les réponses des entreprises aux enquêtes de conjoncture ?

G2002/10 I. ROBERT-BOBÉE Les comportements démographiques dans le modèle de microsimulation Destinie - Une comparaison des estimations issues des enquêtes Jeunes et Carrières 1997 et Histoire Familiale 1999

G2002/11 J.-P. ZOYEM La dynamique des bas revenus : une analyse des entrées-sorties de pauvreté

G2002/12 F. HILD Prévisions d’inflation pour la France

G2002/13 M. LECLAIR Réduction du temps de travail et tensions sur les facteurs de production

G2002/14 E. WALRAET - A. VINCENT - Analyse de la redistribution intragénérationnelle dans le système de retraite des salariés du privé - Une approche par microsimulation - Intragenerational distributional analysis in the french private sector pension scheme - A microsimulation approach

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G2002/15 P. CHONE - D. LE BLANC - I. ROBERT-BOBEE Offre de travail féminine et garde des jeunes enfants

G2002/16 F. MAUREL - S. GREGOIR Les indices de compétitivité des pays : inter-prétation et limites

G2003/01 N. RIEDINGER - E.HAUVY Le coût de dépollution atmosphérique pour les entreprises françaises : Une estimation à partir de données individuelles

G2003/02 P. BISCOURP et F. KRAMARZ Création d’emplois, destruction d’emplois et internationalisation des entreprises industrielles françaises : une analyse sur la période 1986-1992

G2003/03 Bilan des activités de la DESE - 2002

G2003/04 P.-O. BEFFY - J. DEROYON - N. FOURCADE - S. GREGOIR - N. LAÏB - B. MONFORT Évolutions démographiques et croissance : une projection macro-économique à l’horizon 2020

G2003/05 P. AUBERT La situation des salariés de plus de cinquante ans dans le secteur privé

G2003/06 P. AUBERT - B. CRÉPON Age, salaire et productivité La productivité des salariés décline-t-elle en fin de carrière ?

G2003/07 H. BARON - P.O. BEFFY - N. FOURCADE - R. MAHIEU Le ralentissement de la productivité du travail au cours des années 1990

G2003/08 P.-O. BEFFY - B. MONFORT Patrimoine des ménages, dynamique d’allocation et comportement de consommation

G2003/09 P. BISCOURP - N. FOURCADE Peut-on mettre en évidence l’existence de rigidités à la baisse des salaires à partir de données individuelles ? Le cas de la France à la fin des années 90

G2003/10 M. LECLAIR - P. PETIT Présence syndicale dans les firmes : quel impact sur les inégalités salariales entre les hommes et les femmes ?

G2003/11 P.-O. BEFFY - X. BONNET - M. DARRACQ-PARIES - B. MONFORT MZE: a small macro-model for the euro area

G2004/01 P. AUBERT - M. LECLAIR La compétitivité exprimée dans les enquêtes trimestrielles sur la situation et les perspectives dans l’industrie

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G2004/10 J. BOISSINOT - C. L’ANGEVIN - B. MONFORT Public Debt Sustainability: Some Results on the French Case

G2004/11 S. ANANIAN - P. AUBERT Travailleurs âgés, nouvelles technologies et changements organisationnels : un réexamen à partir de l’enquête « REPONSE »

G2004/12 X. BONNET - H. PONCET Structures de revenus et propensions différentes à consommer - Vers une équation de consommation des ménages plus robuste en prévision pour la France

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G2005/02 C. AFSA - S. BUFFETEAU L’évolution de l’activité féminine en France : une approche par pseudo-panel

G2005/03 P. AUBERT - P. SILLARD Délocalisations et réductions d’effectifs dans l’industrie française

G2005/04 M. LECLAIR - S. ROUX Mesure et utilisation des emplois instables dans les entreprises

G2005/05 C. L’ANGEVIN - S. SERRAVALLE Performances à l’exportation de la France et de l’Allemagne - Une analyse par secteur et destination géographique

G2005/06 Bilan des activités de la Direction des Études et Synthèses Économiques - 2004

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G2005/10 P.-O. BEFFY - C. L’ANGEVIN Chômage et boucle prix-salaires : apport d’un modèle « qualifiés/peu qualifiés »

G2005/11 B. HEITZ A two-states Markov-switching model of inflation in France and the USA: credible target VS inflation spiral

G2005/12 O. BIAU - H. ERKEL-ROUSSE - N. FERRARI Réponses individuelles aux enquêtes de conjoncture et prévision macroéconomiques : Exemple de la prévision de la production manufacturière

G2005/13 P. AUBERT - D. BLANCHET - D. BLAU The labour market after age 50: some elements of a Franco-American comparison

G2005/14 D. BLANCHET - T. DEBRAND - P. DOURGNON - P. POLLET L’enquête SHARE : présentation et premiers résultats de l’édition française

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G2006/01 C. BONNET - S. BUFFETEAU - P. GODEFROY Disparités de retraite de droit direct entre hommes et femmes : quelles évolutions ?

G2006/02 C. PICART Les gazelles en France

G2006/03 P. AUBERT - B. CRÉPON -P. ZAMORA Le rendement apparent de la formation continue dans les entreprises : effets sur la productivité et les salaires

G2006/04 J.-F. OUVRARD - R. RATHELOT Demographic change and unemployment: what do macroeconometric models predict?

G2006/05 D. BLANCHET - J.-F. OUVRARD Indicateurs d’engagements implicites des systèmes de retraite : chiffrages, propriétés analytiques et réactions à des chocs démographiques types

G2006/06 G. BIAU - O. BIAU - L. ROUVIERE Nonparametric Forecasting of the Manufacturing Output Growth with Firm-level Survey Data

G2006/07 C. AFSA - P. GIVORD Le rôle des conditions de travail dans les absences pour maladie

G2006/08 P. SILLARD - C. L’ANGEVIN - S. SERRAVALLE Performances comparées à l’exportation de la France et de ses principaux partenaires Une analyse structurelle sur 12 ans

G2006/09 X. BOUTIN - S. QUANTIN Une méthodologie d’évaluation comptable du coût du capital des entreprises françaises : 1984-2002

G2006/10 C. AFSA L’estimation d’un coût implicite de la pénibilité du travail chez les travailleurs âgés

G2006/11 C. LELARGE Les entreprises (industrielles) françaises sont-elles à la frontière technologique ?

G2006/12 O. BIAU - N. FERRARI Théorie de l’opinion Faut-il pondérer les réponses individuelles ?

G2006/13 A. KOUBI - S. ROUX Une réinterprétation de la relation entre productivité et inégalités salariales dans les entreprises

G2006/14 R. RATHELOT - P. SILLARD The impact of local taxes on plants location decision

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G2007/02 V. ALBOUY - L. LEQUIEN Les rendements non monétaires de l’éducation : le cas de la santé

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G2007/04 M. BARLET - L. CRUSSON Quel impact des variations du prix du pétrole sur la croissance française ?

G2007/05 C. PICART Flux d’emploi et de main-d’œuvre en France : un réexamen

G2007/06 V. ALBOUY - C. TAVAN Massification et démocratisation de l’enseignement supérieur en France

G2007/07 T. LE BARBANCHON The Changing response to oil price shocks in France: a DSGE type approach

G2007/08 T. CHANEY - D. SRAER - D. THESMAR Collateral Value and Corporate Investment Evidence from the French Real Estate Market

G2007/09 J. BOISSINOT Consumption over the Life Cycle: Facts for France

G2007/10 C. AFSA Interpréter les variables de satisfaction : l’exemple de la durée du travail

G2007/11 R. RATHELOT - P. SILLARD Zones Franches Urbaines : quels effets sur l’emploi salarié et les créations d’établissements ?

G2007/12 V. ALBOUY - B. CRÉPON Aléa moral en santé : une évaluation dans le cadre du modèle causal de Rubin

G2008/01 C. PICART Les PME françaises : rentables mais peu dynamiques

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G2008/03 Y. BARBESOL - A. BRIANT Économies d’agglomération et productivité des entreprises : estimation sur données individuelles françaises

G2008/04 D. BLANCHET - F. LE GALLO Les projections démographiques : principaux mécanismes et retour sur l’expérience française

G2008/05 D. BLANCHET - F. TOUTLEMONDE Évolutions démographiques et déformation du cycle de vie active : quelles relations ?

G2008/06 M. BARLET - D. BLANCHET - L. CRUSSON Internationalisation et flux d’emplois : que dit une approche comptable ?

G2008/07 C. LELARGE - D. SRAER - D. THESMAR Entrepreneurship and Credit Constraints - Evidence from a French Loan Guarantee Program

G2008/08 X. BOUTIN - L. JANIN Are Prices Really Affected by Mergers?

G2008/09 M. BARLET - A. BRIANT - L. CRUSSON Concentration géographique dans l’industrie manufacturière et dans les services en France : une approche par un indicateur en continu

G2008/10 M. BEFFY - É. COUDIN - R. RATHELOT Who is confronted to insecure labor market histories? Some evidence based on the French labor market transition

G2008/11 M. ROGER - E. WALRAET Social Security and Well-Being of the Elderly: the Case of France

G2008/12 C. AFSA Analyser les composantes du bien-être et de son évolution Une approche empirique sur données individuelles

G2008/13 M. BARLET - D. BLANCHET - T. LE BARBANCHON Microsimuler le marché du travail : un prototype

G2009/01 P.-A. PIONNIER Le partage de la valeur ajoutée en France, 1949-2007

G2009/02 Laurent CLAVEL - Christelle MINODIER A Monthly Indicator of the French Business Climate

G2009/03 H. ERKEL-ROUSSE - C. MINODIER Do Business Tendency Surveys in Industry and Services Help in Forecasting GDP Growth? A Real-Time Analysis on French Data

G2009/04 P. GIVORD - L. WILNER Les contrats temporaires : trappe ou marchepied vers l’emploi stable ?

G2009/05 G. LALANNE - P.-A. PIONNIER - O. SIMON Le partage des fruits de la croissance de 1950 à 2008 : une approche par les comptes de surplus

G2009/06 L. DAVEZIES - X. D’HAULTFOEUILLE Faut-il pondérer ?… Ou l’éternelle question de l’économètre confronté à des données d’enquête

G2009/07 S. QUANTIN - S. RASPILLER - S. SERRAVALLE Commerce intragroupe, fiscalité et prix de transferts : une analyse sur données françaises

G2009/08 M. CLERC - V. MARCUS Élasticités-prix des consommations énergétiques des ménages

G2009/09 G. LALANNE - E. POULIQUEN - O. SIMON Prix du pétrole et croissance potentielle à long terme

G2009/10 D. BLANCHET - J. LE CACHEUX - V. MARCUS Adjusted net savings and other approaches to sustainability: some theoretical background

G2009/11 V. BELLAMY - G. CONSALES - M. FESSEAU - S. LE LAIDIER - É. RAYNAUD Une décomposition du compte des ménages de la comptabilité nationale par catégorie de ménage en 2003

G2009/12 J. BARDAJI - F. TALLET Detecting Economic Regimes in France: a Qualitative Markov-Switching Indicator Using Mixed Frequency Data

G2009/13 R. AEBERHARDT - D. FOUGÈRE - R. RATHELOT Discrimination à l’embauche : comment exploiter les procédures de testing ?

G2009/14 Y. BARBESOL - P. GIVORD - S. QUANTIN Partage de la valeur ajoutée, approche par données microéconomiques

G2009/15 I. BUONO - G. LALANNE The Effect of the Uruguay round on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade

G2010/01 C. MINODIER Avantages comparés des séries des premières valeurs publiées et des séries des valeurs révisées - Un exercice de prévision en temps réel de la croissance trimestrielle du PIB en France

G2010/02 V. ALBOUY - L. DAVEZIES - T. DEBRAND Health Expenditure Models: a Comparison of Five Specifications using Panel Data

G2010/03 C. KLEIN - O. SIMON Le modèle MÉSANGE réestimé en base 2000 Tome 1 – Version avec volumes à prix constants

G2010/04 M.-É. CLERC - É. COUDIN L’IPC, miroir de l’évolution du coût de la vie en France ? Ce qu’apporte l’analyse des courbes d’Engel

G2010/05 N. CECI-RENAUD - P.-A. CHEVALIER Les seuils de 10, 20 et 50 salariés : impact sur la taille des entreprises françaises

G2010/06 R. AEBERHARDT - J. POUGET National Origin Differences in Wages and Hierarchical Positions - Evidence on French Full-Time Male Workers from a matched Employer-Employee Dataset

G2010/07 S. BLASCO - P. GIVORD Les trajectoires professionnelles en début de vie active : quel impact des contrats temporaires ?

G2010/08 P. GIVORD Méthodes économétriques pour l’évaluation de politiques publiques

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G2010/09 P.-Y. CABANNES - V. LAPÈGUE - E. POULIQUEN - M. BEFFY - M. GAINI Quelle croissance de moyen terme après la crise ?

G2010/10 I. BUONO - G. LALANNE La réaction des entreprises françaises à la baisse des tarifs douaniers étrangers

G2010/11 R. RATHELOT - P. SILLARD L’apport des méthodes à noyaux pour mesurer la concentration géographique - Application à la concentration des immigrés en France de 1968 à 1999

G2010/12 M. BARATON - M. BEFFY - D. FOUGÈRE Une évaluation de l’effet de la réforme de 2003 sur les départs en retraite - Le cas des enseignants du second degré public

G2010/13 D. BLANCHET - S. BUFFETEAU - E. CRENNER S. LE MINEZ Le modèle de microsimulation Destinie 2 : principales caractéristiques et premiers résultats

G2010/14 D. BLANCHET - E. CRENNER Le bloc retraites du modèle Destinie 2 : guide de l’utilisateur

G2010/15 M. BARLET - L. CRUSSON - S. DUPUCH - F. PUECH Des services échangés aux services échan-geables : une application sur données françaises

G2010/16 M. BEFFY - T. KAMIONKA Public-private wage gaps: is civil-servant human capital sector-specific?

G2010/17 P.-Y. CABANNES - H. ERKEL-ROUSSE - G. LALANNE - O. MONSO - E. POULIQUEN Le modèle Mésange réestimé en base 2000 Tome 2 - Version avec volumes à prix chaînés

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G2011/01 T. LE BARBANCHON - B. OURLIAC - O. SIMON Les marchés du travail français et américain face aux chocs conjoncturels des années 1986 à 2007 : une modélisation DSGE

G2011/02 C. MARBOT Une évaluation de la réduction d’impôt pour l’emploi de salariés à domicile

G2011/03 L. DAVEZIES Modèles à effets fixes, à effets aléatoires, modèles mixtes ou multi-niveaux : propriétés et mises en œuvre des modélisations de l’hétérogénéité dans le cas de données groupées

G2011/04 M. ROGER - M. WASMER Heterogeneity matters: labour productivity differentiated by age and skills

G2011/05 J.-C. BRICONGNE - J.-M. FOURNIER V. LAPÈGUE - O. MONSO De la crise financière à la crise économique L’impact des perturbations financières de 2007 et 2008 sur la croissance de sept pays industrialisés

G2011/06 P. CHARNOZ - É. COUDIN - M. GAINI Wage inequalities in France 1976-2004: a quantile regression analysis

G2011/07 M. CLERC - M. GAINI - D. BLANCHET Recommendations of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Report: A few illustrations

G2011/08 M. BACHELET - M. BEFFY - D. BLANCHET Projeter l’impact des réformes des retraites sur l’activité des 55 ans et plus : une comparaison de trois modèles

G2011/09 C. LOUVOT-RUNAVOT L’évaluation de l’activité dissimulée des entre-prises sur la base des contrôles fiscaux et son insertion dans les comptes nationaux

G2011/10 A. SCHREIBER - A. VICARD La tertiarisation de l’économie française et le ralentissement de la productivité entre 1978 et 2008

G2011/11 M.-É. CLERC - O. MONSO - E. POULIQUEN Les inégalités entre générations depuis le baby-boom

G2011/12 C. MARBOT - D. ROY Évaluation de la transformation de la réduction d'impôt en crédit d'impôt pour l'emploi de salariés à domicile en 2007

G2011/13 P. GIVORD - R. RATHELOT - P. SILLARD Place-based tax exemptions and displacement effects: An evaluation of the Zones Franches Urbaines program

G2011/14 X. D’HAULTFOEUILLE - P. GIVORD - X. BOUTIN The Environmental Effect of Green Taxation: the Case of the French “Bonus/Malus”

G2011/15 M. BARLET - M. CLERC - M. GARNEO - V. LAPÈGUE - V. MARCUS La nouvelle version du modèle MZE, modèle macroéconométrique pour la zone euro

G2011/16 R. AEBERHARDT - I. BUONO - H. FADINGER Learning, Incomplete Contracts and Export Dynamics: Theory and Evidence form French Firms

G2011/17 C. KERDRAIN - V. LAPÈGUE Restrictive Fiscal Policies in Europe: What are the Likely Effects?

G2012/01 P. GIVORD - S. QUANTIN - C. TREVIEN A Long-Term Evaluation of the First Generation of the French Urban Enterprise Zones

G2012/02 N. CECI-RENAUD - V. COTTET Politique salariale et performance des entreprises

G2012/03 P. FÉVRIER - L. WILNER Do Consumers Correctly Expect Price Reductions? Testing Dynamic Behavior

G2012/04 M. GAINI - A. LEDUC - A. VICARD School as a shelter? School leaving-age and the business cycle in France

G2012/05 M. GAINI - A. LEDUC - A. VICARD A scarred generation? French evidence on young people entering into a tough labour market

G2012/06 P. AUBERT - M. BACHELET Disparités de montant de pension et redistribution dans le système de retraite français

G2012/07 R. AEBERHARDT - P GIVORD - C. MARBOT Spillover Effect of the Minimum Wage in France: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

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G2012/08 A. EIDELMAN - F. LANGUMIER - A. VICARD Prélèvements obligatoires reposant sur les ménages : des canaux redistributifs différents en 1990 et 2010

G2012/09 O. BARGAIN - A. VICARD Le RMI et son successeur le RSA découragent-ils certains jeunes de travailler ? Une analyse sur les jeunes autour de 25 ans

G2012/10 C. MARBOT - D. ROY Projections du coût de l’APA et des caractéristiques de ses bénéficiaires à l’horizon 2040 à l’aide du modèle Destinie

G2012/11 A. MAUROUX Le crédit d’impôt dédié au développement durable : une évaluation économétrique

G2012/12 V. COTTET - S. QUANTIN - V. RÉGNIER Coût du travail et allègements de charges : une estimation au niveau établissement de 1996 à 2008

G2012/13 X. D’HAULTFOEUILLE - P. FÉVRIER - L. WILNER Demand Estimation in the Presence of Revenue Management

G2012/14 D. BLANCHET - S. LE MINEZ Joint macro/micro evaluations of accrued-to-date pension liabilities: an application to French reforms

G2013/01- T. DEROYON - A. MONTAUT - P-A PIONNIER F1301 Utilisation rétrospective de l’enquête Emploi à

une fréquence mensuelle : apport d’une modélisation espace-état

G2013/02- C. TREVIEN F1302 Habiter en HLM : quel avantage monétaire et

quel impact sur les conditions de logement ?

G2013/03 A. POISSONNIER Temporal disaggregation of stock variables - The

Chow-Lin method extended to dynamic models

G2013/04 P. GIVORD - C. MARBOT Does the cost of child care affect female labor

market participation? An evaluation of a French reform of childcare subsidies

G2013/05 G. LAME - M. LEQUIEN - P.-A. PIONNIER Interpretation and limits of sustainability tests in

public finance

G2013/06 C. BELLEGO - V. DORTET-BERNADET La participation aux pôles de compétitivité :

quelle incidence sur les dépenses de R&D et l’activité des PME et ETI ?

G2013/07 P.-Y. CABANNES - A. MONTAUT - P.-A. PIONNIER

Évaluer la productivité globale des facteurs en France : l’apport d’une mesure de la qualité du capital et du travail

G2013/08 R. AEBERHARDT - C. MARBOT Evolution of Instability on the French Labour

Market During the Last Thirty Years

G2013/09 J-B. BERNARD - G. CLÉAUD Oil price: the nature of the shocks and the impact

on the French economy

G2013/10 G. LAME Was there a « Greenspan Conundrum » in the

Euro area?

G2013/11 P. CHONÉ - F. EVAIN - L. WILNER - E. YILMAZ Introducing activity-based payment in the

hospital industry : Evidence from French data

G2013/12 C. GRISLAIN-LETRÉMY Natural Disasters: Exposure and Underinsurance

G2013/13 P.-Y. CABANNES - V. COTTET - Y. DUBOIS - C. LELARGE - M. SICSIC French Firms in the Face of the 2008/2009 Crisis

G2013/14 A. POISSONNIER - D. ROY Households Satellite Account for France in 2010.

Methodological issues on the assessment of domestic production

G2013/15 G. CLÉAUD - M. LEMOINE - P.-A. PIONNIER Which size and evolution of the government

expenditure multiplier in France (1980-2010)?

G2014/01 M. BACHELET - A. LEDUC - A. MARINO Les biographies du modèle Destinie II : rebasage

et projection

G2014/02 B. GARBINTI L’achat de la résidence principale et la création

d’entreprises sont-ils favorisés par les donations et héritages ?

G2014/03 N. CECI-RENAUD - P. CHARNOZ - M. GAINI Évolution de la volatilité des revenus salariaux du

secteur privé en France depuis 1968

G2014/04 P. AUBERT Modalités d’application des réformes des

retraites et prévisibilité du montant de pension

G2014/05 C. GRISLAIN-LETRÉMY - A. KATOSSKY The Impact of Hazardous Industrial Facilities on

Housing Prices: A Comparison of Parametric and Semiparametric Hedonic Price Models

G2014//06 J.-M. DAUSSIN-BENICHOU - A. MAUROUX Turning the heat up. How sensitive are households to fiscal incentives on energy efficiency investments?

G2014/07 C. LABONNE - G. LAMÉ Credit Growth and Capital Requirements: Binding or Not?

G2014/08 C. GRISLAIN-LETRÉMY et C. TREVIEN The Impact of Housing Subsidies on the Rental Sector: the French Example

G2014 09 M. LEQUIEN et A. MONTAUT Croissance potentielle en France et en zone euro : un tour d’horizon des méthodes d’estimation

G2014/10 B. GARBINTI - P. LAMARCHE Les hauts revenus épargnent-ils davantage ?

G2014/11 D. AUDENAERT - J. BARDAJI - R. LARDEUX - M. ORAND - M. SICSIC Wage Resilience in France since the Great Recession

G2014/12 F. ARNAUD - J. BOUSSARD - A. POISSONNIER - H. SOUAL Computing additive contributions to growth and other issues for chain-linked quarterly aggregates

G2014/13 H. FRAISSE - F. KRAMARZ - C. PROST Labor Disputes and Job Flows

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G2014/14 P. GIVORD - C. GRISLAIN-LETRÉMY - H. NAEGELE How does fuel taxation impact new car purchases? An evaluation using French consumer-level dataset

G2014/15 P. AUBERT - S. RABATÉ Durée passée en carrière et durée de vie en retraite : quel partage des gains d'espérance de vie ?

G2015/01 Aurélien POISSONNIER The walking dead Euler equation Addressing a challenge to monetary policy models

G2015/02 Y. DUBOIS - A. MARINO Indicateurs de rendement du système de retraite français

G2015/03 T. MAYER - C. TREVIEN The impacts of Urban Public Transportation: Evidence from the Paris Region

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G2015/05 M. A. BEN HALIMA - V. HYAFIL-SOLELHAC M. KOUBI - C. REGAERT Quel est l’impact du système d’indemnisation maladie sur la durée des arrêts de travail pour maladie ?

G2015/06 Y. DUBOIS - A. MARINO Disparités de rendement du système de retraite dans le secteur privé : approches intergénéra-tionnelle et intragénérationnelle

G2015/07 B. CAMPAGNE - V. ALHENC-GELAS - J.-B. BERNARD No evidence of financial accelerator in France