Ehsan Zanganeh; Gholamreza Zamanian; Mohammad Nabi Shahiki Tash; Ali Cheshomi
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In Iran's economy, most of the financial resources needed by economic enterprises are provided through the granting of facilities by the banking network. Therefore, studying the factors affecting banking facilities in the private sector in Iran's economy is of particular importance. In this article, ...
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In Iran's economy, most of the financial resources needed by economic enterprises are provided through the granting of facilities by the banking network. Therefore, studying the factors affecting banking facilities in the private sector in Iran's economy is of particular importance. In this article, we investigate the factors affecting the facilities granted by banks using quarterly data from the Iranian economy from 1379 to 1399 with the nonlinear Markov switching approach. A non-linear approach was used because bank facilities show different effects of economic factors during periods of credit and commercial boom and bust. The results of the research show that the economic growth rate, the interest rate of facilities and the growth rate of bank deposits have a positive relationship with the growth of real facilities and the interest rate of bank deposits has a negative effect on it, but the degree of influence of each of the economic factors on the growth rate of real facilities is different in every cycle. This asymmetric impact of macroeconomic factors during different cyclical periods is important in policymaking and should be taken into consideration when making monetary policy.
Naser Khiabani; shaghayegh shajari
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Housing price swings have always been under the spotlight for policy-makers and academics. Financial accelerator mechanism (developed by Bernanke and Gertler, 1999) can provide some explanation to these fluctuations. With focusing on the concept of financial accelerator, this paper sheds light on the ...
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Housing price swings have always been under the spotlight for policy-makers and academics. Financial accelerator mechanism (developed by Bernanke and Gertler, 1999) can provide some explanation to these fluctuations. With focusing on the concept of financial accelerator, this paper sheds light on the long- and short-run correlation of housing prices and credit in Iran. We applied a Structural Vector Error Correction Model (SVECM) to housing and credit market over period 1988q2-2015q1. Our findings confirm the existence of a cointegrated relationship between credit and housing prices. In a long-run perspective, the causation goes from credit to housing prices. However, in the short-run we find an existence of contemporaneous bi-directional dependence between housing prices and credit. In general, we find the evidence of housing collateral effect in housing and credit markets in Iran. However, this role is small and limited compared to the same role in countries with developed financial and mortgage markets.