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Banks’ liquidity holdings are comfortably above legal or prudential requirements in most Central American countries. While good for financial stability, high systemic liquidity may nonetheless hinder monetary policy transmission and financial markets development. Using a panel of about...
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the GSEs. We find that judicial requirements reduce the supply of credit only for jumbo loans that are ineligible for GSE … nonbinary measures of judicial requirements, illustrate the consequences of foreclosure laws on the supply of mortgage credit …
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-borrower countrydata and controlling for credit demand, we show that reductions largely varied in line with markets’ prior assessments of …
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The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic growth, has remained a puzzle. This paper shows that the post-crisis investment recession has been mainly concentrated in the nontradable sector, and hypothesizes that the slowdown...
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market prices, those based on normalized measures of total credit and those based on liabilities of financial intermediaries … credit and liabilities convey similar information and perform better as early warning indicators, but liabilities are more …
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The monetary transmission mechanism in the euro area has been adversely affected by the recent crises. Using survey data on thousands of euro area firms, we study factors that affect the access to finance of SMEs. We find that changes in bank funding costs and borrower leverage matter for...
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Countries in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) experienced a credit boom-bust cycle in the last decade …. This paper analyzes the roles of demand and supply factors in explaining this credit cycle. Our analysis first focuses on a … large sample of bank-level data on credit growth for the entire CESEE region. We complement this analysis by five case …
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This paper explores the effect of U.S. unconventional monetary policy (QE2) on a group of frontier developing economies (FDEs) in Asia. This paper finds that spillovers emanating from the U.S. on FDEs in Asia have been small. The relative insulation of emerging Asia from the global financial...
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We document the behavior of macro and credit variables during episodes of capital inflows reversals in economies with … different degrees of exchange rate flexibility. We find that exchange rate flexibility is associated with milder credit growth … during the boom but, even though smaller than in more rigid regimes, it cannot shield the economy from a credit reversal …
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Investment across the euro area remains below its pre-crisis level. Its performance has been weaker than in most previous recessions and financial crises. This paper shows that a part of this weakness can be explained by output dynamics, particularly before the European sovereign debt crisis....
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