Showing 1 - 10 of 1,278
monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456534
fundamentals with firm-quarter fixed effects; thus, identification comes from a firm's choice to default against one bank versus … bank relationships comes into doubt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456640
bank overdraft facilities -- helps individuals smooth consumption in the event of transitory income shocks. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480298
One of the explanations for global imbalances is the self-financing behavior of credit-constrained firms in rapidly growing emerging markets. We use an extensive firm-level data set from several Asian countries during 2002-2011, and test the micro foundation of this theory by estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456342
We show that increased uncertainty about the size of an emerging market's external debt has a nonlinear and potentially large adverse effect on the supply of international credit offered to them. We also show that if international creditors are first- order risk averse, attaching greater weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471396
This paper characterizes the capital flows in Asia before and after the Asian currency crisis of 1997. Differences in … foreign direct investment, portfolio investment, and bank lending are emphasized. There are common factors and idiosyncratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471660
To American and European economists in 1945, the countries of Asia were unpromising candidates for high economic growth … Asia experienced vigorous economic growth, some with growth rates far exceeding the previous growth rates of the … economic growth would falter, proved to be incorrect. Growth rates will probably continue at high levels in Southeast Asia for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467938
Malaysia recovered from the Asian financial crisis swiftly after the imposition of capital controls in September 1998. The fact that Korea and Thailand recovered in parallel has been interpreted as suggesting that capital controls did not play a significant role in facilitating Malaysia's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470587
We study the corporate-loan pricing decisions of a major Greek bank during the Greek financial crisis. A unique aspect … of our dataset is that we observe both the interest rate and the "breakeven rate" of each loan, as computed by the bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172149
. Finally, for Europe we assess the relative importance of cross-border bank spillovers as compared to domestic bank spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466974