credit growth experienced by these countries. We find that, on average, both bank capitalization and lending activities in … Latin America increased after Basel. Consequently, Basel did not seem to lead to an overall credit decline. However, we do … Basel II might cause greater procyclicality of credit. …

credit growth in select countries. We develop regression models of the fundamental determinants of bank credit and use them …In this paper, we analyze credit growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade focusing on the post-2002 rapid … to examine whether they can fully explain developments in rapid credit growth countries. We then argue that rapid credit …

resulting in an acceleration of bank lending. In particular, regulatory reforms pertaining to loan classification and …

procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have … new cross-country evidence on how they influence real private bank credit growth. Our results show that these instruments …

recommendations of the 2004 FSAP. Many improvements have been made to bank and securities supervision. The banking sector as a whole …