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Are Weak Banks Leading Credit Booms? Evidence from Emerging Europe

Igan, Deniz - 2008

-level data for central and eastern Europe and controlling for the feedback effect of credit growth on bank soundness. No evidence … credit booms supervisors need to carefully monitor the soundness of rapidly expanding banks and stand ready to take ac …

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A Fistful of Dollars

Igan, Deniz - 2009

Using detailed information on lobbying and mortgage lending activities, we find that lenders lobbying more on issues related to mortgage lending (i) had higher loan-to-income ratios, (ii) securitized more intensively, and (iii) had faster growing portfolios. Ex-post, delinquency rates are higher...

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U.S. Dollar Risk Premiums and Capital Flows.

Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY -- II. WHAT ARE RISK PREMIUMS ON THE DOLLAR AND HOW CAN WE MEASURE THEM? -- III. CAPITAL FLOWS AND RISK PREMIUMS -- IV. EXPLAINING RISK PREMIUM MOVEMENTS -- V. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- DATA AND REGRESSION METHODOLOGY -- References.

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Euro's Challenge to the Dollar : Different Views from Economists and Evidence from COFER (Currency Composition of Foreign Exchange Reserves) and Other Data

Lim, Ewe-Ghee - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. WHY IS THERE A NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL MONEY? -- III. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK-FACTORS THAT FACILITATE INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY STATUS -- IV. REASONS FOR THE DIFFERENT VIEWS -- V. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE TO DATE -- VI. MEDIUM-TERM PROSPECTS FOR THE EURO -- VII....

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An Anatomy of Credit Booms

Terrones, Marco - 2008

We study the characteristics of credit booms in emerging and industrial economies. Macro data show a systematic … relationship between credit booms and economic expansions, rising asset prices, real appreciations and widening external deficits …. Micro data show a strong association between credit booms and leverage ratios, firm values, and banking fragility. We also …

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Credit Booms and Lending Standards

Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - 2008

expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house …

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Banking Structure and Credit Growth in Central and Eastern European Countries

Aydin, Burcu - 2008

are experiencing credit booms. This paper analyzes the role of foreign-owned banks in these credit booms. The results show …

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The domestic credit supply response to international bank deleveraging : is Asia different?

Aiyar, Shekhar; Jain Chandra, Sonali - 2012

examines the impact of that deleveraging on credit supply in recipient economies, with a particular focus on Asia …

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The Capital Markets of Emerging Europe : Institutions, Instruments and Investors

Ong, Li - 2008

Emerging European countries have made large strides in developing their local capital markets since the early-1990s. However, the rate of development has been widely disparate across countries and market segments, underpinned by the varying degrees of progress made in key areas such as...

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Regional Financial Spillovers Across Europe

Sgherri, Silvia - 2009

The recent financial crisis raises important issues about the transmission of financial shocks across borders. In this paper, a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model is constructed to assess the relevance of international spillovers following a historical slowdown in U.S. equity prices. The...

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