Credit, Financial Stability, and the Macroeconomy

Forthcoming in the Annual Review of Economics, doi: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115437. I am greatly indebted to my colleagues Òscar Jordà and Moritz Schularick with whom I have worked on the projects described here. Our work has been generously supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Bank of England, the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, and our home institutions. At various points we have received support and encouragement from many other scholars and organizations too numerous to mention in full here. I thank the reviewing editor and an anonymous reviewer for useful suggestions that have improved the article. For helpful interactions that have served to guide and sharpen my thinking, I thank Michael Bordo, Claudio Borio, Charles Calomiris, Guillermo Calvo, Steve Ceccheti, Gavyn Davies, Mathias Drehmann, Barry Eichengreen, Joachim Fels, Mark Gertler, Charles Goodhart, Gary Gorton, Andrew Haldane, Charles Haswell, Mervyn King, Andrew Metrick, Atif Mian, Maurice Obstfeld, Adam Posen, Manoj Pradhan, Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart, Ricardo Reis, Kenneth Rogoff, Julio Rotemberg, David Scharfstein, Amir Sufi, Adair Turner, Martin Wolf, and Michael Woodford. All errors are mine. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.