Household Debt, Corporate Debt, and the Real Economy: Some Empirical Evidence

Donghyun Park; Kwanho Shin; Shu Tian

doi:10.1080/1540496X.2021.1895114

Household Debt, Corporate Debt, and the Real Economy: Some Empirical Evidence

Donghyun Park, Kwanho Shin, Shu Tian

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Abstract

The rapid accumulation of private debt is widely viewed as a major risk to financial and economic stability. This article systematically and comprehensively assesses the effect of private debt buildup on economic growth. In the spirit of the existing study that separately examines the effects of two types of private debt–household debt and corporate debt–on growth in advanced economies, we specifically provide new evidence on the growth-private debt nexus in both advanced and emerging market economies (EMEs). Moreover, we construct financial peaks in terms of the speed of debt accumulation rather than crisis dates and find that in both advanced and EMEs, corporate debt buildups cause more financial peaks than household debt buildups. Furthermore, corporate debt-induced financial recessions inflict a bigger damage on output than household debt-induced financial recessions in EMEs. Overall, our evidence suggests that policymakers would do well to closely monitor not only household debt but also corporate debt.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1474-1490
Number of pages	17
Journal	Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
Volume	58
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2021.1895114
Publication status	Published - 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This article was initially prepared for the Asian Development Bank Institute’s 21st Annual Conference: Managing Private and Local Government Debt in Asia, 30 November–1 December 2017. This was also used as a background article for the Asian Development Outlook 2018 and a preliminary version was published as ADB working paper No. 567. We thank Jaeyoung Yoo for his excellent research assistance, Hyein Han and Cynthia Castillejos-Petalcorin for their superb editorial work, and the Asian Development Bank for its financial support.

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© 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Keywords

E32
E44
G01
Private debt
business cycle
corporate debt
crisis
economic growth
household debt
output

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Finance
Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)

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Household Debt, Corporate Debt, and the Real Economy: Some Empirical Evidence

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