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This paper considers the question of whether international banks learn from their previous crisis experiences and reduce their lending to developing countries in the event of a financial crisis. The analysis combines a bank-level dataset of bank activity and ownership with country-level data on...
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This paper examines the association between the default risk of foreign bank subsidiaries and their parents during the global financial crisis, with the purpose of understanding what factors can help insulate affiliates from their parents. The paper finds evidence of a significant positive...
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shocks around the world. This relationship is significantly stronger in Central and Eastern Europe, a region with … the world. The paper shows that high foreign ownership per se does not appear to explain credit response differences to … regulatory and supervisory implications for emerging countries in Central and Eastern Europe as well as for other countries …
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One of the persistent policy problems faced by governments contemplating financial liberalizations is the question of whether to allow foreign banks entry into the domestic economy. This question has become ever more urgent in recent times, due to rapid financial globalization, coupled with the...
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-2009 crisis. Using bank-level data for countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America, it analyzes the growth of banks' total gross … Eastern Europe and Latin America contracted their loan growth rates during the crisis, there are differences in foreign and … government-owned bank credit growth across regions. In Eastern Europe, foreign bank total lending fell by more than domestic …
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During a financial crisis, credit provision by international banks may be stymied by three distinct, but related, channels: changes in lending standards as a result of increased economic uncertainty, changes in funding availability from interbank liquidity markets, and changes in solvency due to...
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This paper examines changes in bank capital and capital regulations since the global financial crisis, in the Europe … and Central Asia region. It shows that banks in Europe and Central Asia are better capitalized, as measured by regulatory … of the definition of Tier 1 capital and reduction in risk-weights. Further analyses show that bank risk in Europe and …
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This paper analyzes the subjective impact of the global economic crisis on households in Europe and Central Asia and …-thirds of respondents in Europe and Central Asia report their household was subjectively affected, primarily through the labor …
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This paper examines how the 2008-09 financial crisis affected labor markets in Central and Western Europe, and how this …
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The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
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