Download Private Credit, Public Debt, and Financial Crises Òscar Jordà

Private Credit, Public Debt, and
Financial Crises
Prepared for FRBSF Seminar: Understanding the Slow Recovery
April 10, 2013
Òscar Jordà
Research Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Thanks to Early Elias for research assistance, and FRBSF Community Development, Economic Research
for advice. Based on work with Moritz Schularick (U. of Bonn) and Alan M. Taylor (U. of Virginia).
140 years, 17 countries: Lessons
1. The long view and emerging trends
2. Credit and financial crises
3. Public debt and the recovery
4. Implications for policymakers
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The long view and emerging trends
3
Financial crises return…Why?
Financial Crises
Out of 17
9
Countries experiencing a crisis in a given year
8
7
6
5
Bretton
Woods
4
3
2
1
0
1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
4
Bretton Woods: what was different?
• Capital controls
• Fixed exchange rates
• Low leverage banking
• Govt. securities a much higher proportion of
bank assets (less portfolio risk)
• Primitive finance did not hinder investment:
Average growth = 3.8% in 1947-1970, 3.2% in
1971-2007
• BW eventually collapsed
5
Banking sector explodes since Bretton Woods
Bank Lending, Bank Assets and Money
As a percent of GDP, average across 17 countries
Percent
250
Bretton Woods
ends
Bank assets
200
150
Bank loans
100
Money
50
0
1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
6
Age of money ushers the age of credit
Bank Aggregates Relative to Money
Percent
150
Average across 17 countries
100
Bank assets
50
0
Bank loans
-50
-100
-150
-200
1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
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From nuts and bolts to bricks and mortar
Ratio of US Real Estate Lending to
US Total Lending
Ratio
0.8
Total real estate
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
Household
0.3
Commercial
0.2
0.1
0
1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
8
Total Liabilities then and now
1928
Percent
Bank liabilities
Public debt
2007
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Percent
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
9
Unprecedented reversal of reserves
• Lesson of 1990s emerging markets (EM)
crises:
– Crisis more painful w/o foreign reserves
• Since:
– Globalization = expansion of balance sheets
– Private capital flows from DM to EM
– Official capital flows from EM to DM
• Great Reserve Accumulation: $10T officially
+ $4T in sovereign wealth funds
10
Demographic trends reversing: Savings?
Dependents as a Percentage of Working Age
Working age = ages 20-64; dependents = ages 0-19 and 65+
Percent
85
80
75
70
More developed
65
60
World
55
Less developed
50
45
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
Source: U.N. Population Statistics; see Pradhan and Taylor (2011)
2020
2030
2040
2050
11
Recent trends are game changers
• Unprecedented expansion of credit: financial
assets/GDP = 150% in 1975 → 350% in 2008.
Bank loans/GDP doubled.
• The banks’ asset mix: govt. securities 60-70% in
1950; 0% in the 2000s
• Switch to wholesale funding (uninsured) from
deposits (insured): Shadow banking
• Public debt growing globally before the crisis
12
Credit and financial crises
13
Financial crises are different
USA real GDP per capita
Percentage points
15
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
10
Normal
5
0
Financial
-5
-10
0
1
2
3
Years
4
5
14
Financial crises: disinvestment and deflation
USA Investment
Percentage
points
Cummulative change from the start of the recession
USA CPI Prices
Cumulative change since the start of the recession
Percentage
points
40
25
30
20
20
Normal
Normal
15
10
0
10
-10
5
-20
0
-30
Financial
-40
Financial
-5
-50
-10
-60
-70
0
1
2
3
Years
4
5
-15
0
1
2
3
4
5
Years
15
Private credit predicts financial crises
Predict financial crises with:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Change in private credit

-


-
Change in public debt
-


-

Level of credit/GDP
-
-
-

-
Level of debt/GDP
-
-
-
-

Both interacted
-
-
-


0.72
0.61
0.71
0.71
0.62
AUC
• Public debt does not work
• External imbalances (not shown) do no work
• Let’s not kid ourselves, financial crises are difficult to predict
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Excess credit trumps debt accumulation
The Recession and the Recovery
Percent
6
Normal vs. financial as a function of credit and debt
4
Normal
Low credit
and
low debt
Low credit
and
high debt
2
0
-2
High credit
and
high debt
High credit
and
low debt
-4
-6
-8
0
1
2
Years
3
4
5
17
Public debt and the recovery
18
Public debt growing again…
Total Public Debt to GDP Ratio
Percent of GDP
140
120
100
Average
(exclud. USA and Japan)
80
USA
60
40
20
0
1870
1890
1910
1930
1950
1970
1990
2010
19
Excess credit buildup hurts in the downturn
Real GDP per capita
Percentage points
6
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
4
Normal
2
Norm. + excess credit
0
-2
Financial
-4
-6
Fin. + excess credit
-8
-10
0
1
2
Years
3
4
5
20
Excess credit buildup hurts in the downturn
Lending
Public debt
Percentage points
30
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
Percentage points
14
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
12
25
Normal
Fin. + excess credit
20
10
8
15
Financial
Financial
6
10
4
5
2
0
0
Normal
-5
Fin. + excess credit
-2
-4
-10
0
1
2
Years
3
4
0
5
1
CPI Prices
2
Years
3
4
5
Percentage points
12
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
10
Normal
8
6
4
Financial
2
0
-2
-4
-6
Fin. + excess credit
-8
0
1
2
Years
3
4
5
21
The level of debt matters in the downturn
Real GDP per capita
CPI Prices
Percentage points
6
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
Normal
Percentage points
15
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
Normal
4
10
2
0
Financial
Debt/GDP = 50
5
Financial
Debt/GDP = 50
0
-2
-5
-4
-10
-6
Financial
Debt/GDP = 100
-15
-8
Financial
Debt/GDP = 100
-10
-20
-12
0
1
2
Years
3
4
Lending
5
Percentage points
30
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
-25
0
1
2
Public Debt
Years
3
5
Percentage points
10
Cumulative change from the start of the recession
Financial
Debt/GDP = 50
25
Normal
4
20
5
Normal
0
15
Financial
Debt/GDP = 50
-5
10
5
-10
Financial
Debt/GDP = 100
0
-15
-5
Financial
Debt/GDP = 100
-20
-10
0
1
2
Years
3
4
5
0
1
2
Years
3
4
5
22
US vs UK recovery (± shadow banking)
USA real GDP per capita
Cumulative change since the start of the 2007
recession
Percentage
points
15
UK real GDP per capita
Cumulative change since the start of the 2007
recession
Percentage
points
15
10
10
Normal
Normal
5
5
0
0
Actual
Predicted
-5
-5
Actual
Predicted
-10
0
1
2
3
Years
4
-10
0
1
2
3
4
5
Years
23
Implications for policymakers
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Maybe this time is different
• Monitor credit and leverage. New age of
credit:
– Excess credit makes recessions worse,
recoveries slower
– Turns some into financial crises
• Excess public debt:
– Not the same as credit
– But high levels complicate recoveries from
financial crises
• New EM and demographic trends
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Further reading
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Useful References
• Jordà, Òscar. 2012. Credit: A Starring Role in the Downturn. FRBSF
Economic Letter, 2012-12.
• Jordà, Òscar, Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor. 2011. Financial
Crises, Credit Booms, and External Imbalances: 140 Years of Lessons.
IMF Economic Review, 59.
•
Jordà, Òscar, Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor. 2012. When Credit
Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises. FRBSF working
paper.
• Reinhart, Carmen M. and Kenneth Rogoff. 2009. This Time Is Different:
Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Princeton University Press.
• Schularick, Moritz and Alan M. Taylor. 2012. Credit Booms Gone Bust:
Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles, and Financial Crises, 1870-2008.
American Economic Review, 102(2).
• Taylor, Alan M. 2012. The Great Leveraging. NBER working paper 18290
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