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better control of a major source of business cycle fluctuations, sudden increases and contractions of bank credit and of the … supply of bank-created money. (2) Complete elimination of bank runs. (3) Dramatic reduction of the (net) public debt. (4 …
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Credit is key to support healthy and sustainable economic growth but excess aggregate credit growth can signal the build-up of imbalances and lead to systemic financial crisis. Hence, monitoring the credit cycle is key to identifying vulnerabilities, particularly in emerging markets, which tend...
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will be less important at this stage. Further evidence from bank lending standards surveys suggests that the leakage …
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Assessing when credit is excessive is important to understand macro-financial vulnerabilities and guide macroprudential policy. The Basel Credit Gap (BCG) - the deviation of the credit-to-GDP ratio from its long-term trend estimated with a one-sided Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter-is the indicator...
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This paper offers novel evidence on the impact of raising bank capital requirements in the context of an emerging … market: Peru. Using quarterly bank-level data and exploiting the adoption of bank-specific capital buffers, we find that … higher capital requirements have a short-lived, negative impact on bank credit in Peru, although this effect becomes …
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Whether and to what extent tougher bank regulation weighs on economic growth is an open empirical question. Using data … from 28 manufacturing industries in 50 countries, we explore the extent to which cross-country differences in bank … enterprises. This relationship, however, exists only for bank-based systems and emerging market economies. In the pre …
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Banks are usually better informed on the loans they originate than other financial intermediaries. As a result, securitized loans might be of lower credit quality than otherwise similar nonsecuritized loans. We assess the effect of securitization activity on loans' relative credit quality...
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Limited access to finance and its high cost have contributed to relatively low levels of private investment and subpar growth in the Kyrgyz Republic. Interest rate spreads have moderated in recent years, but remain high from both a regional and global perspective. At the same time, collateral...
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over two decades. A reduced-form equation is estimated on the basis of a bank profit maximization model that permits a …
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The crisis in Europe has underscored the vulnerability of European bank funding models compared to international peers …. This paper studies the drivers behind this fragility and examines the future of bank funding, primarily wholesale, in … possible policy options and bank actions to enhance European bank funding models’ robustness …
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