instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes and their effects on bank lending growth. The … bank lending. Second, international spillovers vary across prudential instruments and are heterogeneous across banks. Bank …-specific factors like balance sheet conditions and business models drive the amplitude and direction of spillovers to lending growth …

instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes for bank lending growth. The collective analysis has … three main findings. First, prudential instrument effects sometimes spill over across borders through bank lending. Second … sheet conditions and business models drive the amplitude and direction of spillovers to lending growth rates. Third …

(MDBs) specialized in sovereign lending (IBRD, ADB, IADB, AfDB), based on available capital buffers and while maintaining … treatment’ (PCT) – could substantially erode this lending capacity, reducing it to $116-227 billion. Therefore, in the post …-pandemic period, it will be crucial to preserve the PCT of MDBs, also in the hypothetical case of debt restructuring episodes. Other …

In 1996, the IMF and the World Bank introduced the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative — a comprehensive debt … relief program aimed at reducing the external debt burden of eligible countries to sustainable levels, provided they carry … analysis illustrates that it is hard to disentangle pure debt-relief effects from other concurrent factors …