Reports the credit-to-GDP gap for a country, which is the deviation of the credit ratio from its long-run trend and the quantity the Basel framework uses to trigger the countercyclical capital buffer. The thresholds applied are the regulatory ones — the buffer starts to build at a gap of two percentage points and is at maximum by ten — and they are returned with the result, because a phase judgement built on invented cut-offs is an opinion while one built on the supervisory thresholds can be…

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