This paper studies the impact of declining oil prices on banks in sub-Saharan African oil-exporting countries. Results … indicate that banks respond differently to an oil shock depending on their ownership: (i) domestic banks are the most adversely … impacted and experience a deterioration in asset quality and liquidity; (ii) foreign-owned banks are the most resilient as they …

forecasts of macro-financial variables, and projects non-performing loans (NPL) on the basis of such forecasts. Economic … contractions are generally associated with increases in NPL. However, despite the common assumption used in the empirical … literature of homogeneous impact across banks, the strength of this relationship is often bank-specific, and imposing homogeneity …

Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (the CE4) have been in a process of deepening economic …

central banks should not be overly concerned with short-run volatility of their national exchange rates, given the self …