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 …

-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 …

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

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

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 …

a negative shock to banks' capital/assetratio on lending standards, which in turn affect consumer credit, mortgages, and … investment). In addition, our empirical model allows for feedback from spending and income to bank capital adequacy and credit …. Hence, we trace the full credit cycle. An exogenous fall in the bank capital/asset ratio by one percentage poin …

This study examines the recent marked slowdown in bank credit to the private sector in Latin America. Based on the …, changes in bank balance sheets are examined to determine whether the credit slowdown is merely a reflection of a slowdown in … recent studies of credit slowdowns in East Asia and Finland, the paper investigates possible causes for the slowdown in three …