What explains the post-crisis slowdown in bank credit to private sector in the South-East European economies? We try to … answer this question, by comparing the actual credit growth to the fundamental and equilibrium growths. The fundamental … economy being in medium-term equilibrium. Results suggest that the slowdown reflects both return of the credit activity to its …

International comparisons reveal that - even controlling for a host of explanatory factors - credit depth is … exceptionally low in Mexico. Using panel data methods linking credit growth and fundamentals, this paper estimates a long-term gap … between actual and expected credit of about 40 percent of GDP. Possible explanations include the history of banking crises …

confirm that an excessive credit supply, reflected in overextension of committed credit lines, predicts increase in bank loan …We investigate the association between banks' credit expansion and loan loss reserves on a panel of banks from 11 new … EU member countries from Central and Eastern Europe during 2004-2010. Unused committed credit lines capture the decline …