Credit Growth and Economic Recovery in Europe After the Global Financial Crisis

By Sergei Antoshin, Marco Arena, Nikolay Gueorguiev, Tonny Lybek, John Ralyea, Etienne B Yehoue

November 17, 2017

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Sergei Antoshin, Marco Arena, Nikolay Gueorguiev, Tonny Lybek, John Ralyea, and Etienne B Yehoue. Credit Growth and Economic Recovery in Europe After the Global Financial Crisis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

This paper reviews the empirical relationships between credit growth, economic recovery, and bank profitability in Europe after the global financial crisis (GFC). We find that the post-GFC recoveries in Europe have been weaker than previous recoveries, with the “double-dip” recessions in 2011–12 in many countries and the worldwide reach of the GFC explaining the underperformance. Bank lending has been subdued as well, but this appears to have only held back the recovery relatively moderately. A 10 percent increase in bank credit to the private sector is associated with a rise of 0.6–1 percent in real GDP and 2–2½ percent in real private investment. These relationships have not changed significantly during and after the GFC. Loan quality, customer deposits, bank equity price index, and bank capital appear to be closely linked to bank lending. As expected, bank profitability is positively and significantly influenced by credit growth, but this relationship has weakened after the GFC.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Credit, Credit booms, Financial crises, Global financial crisis of 2008-2009, Money

Keywords: Bank credit, Bank profitability, CESEE recession-recovery pattern, Credit, Credit booms, Credit dynamics, Credit extension, Credit growth, Creditless recoveries, Creditless recovery, Dummy recession, Economic activity, Economic recovery, Europe, GFC recession, GFC recovery, GFC-induced recession, Global, Global financial crisis, Global financial crisis of 2008-2009, Price index, Private sector, Recovery dummy, Recovery period, WP

Publication Details

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54
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Working Paper No. 2017/256
Stock No:

WPIEA2017256
ISBN:

9781484329610
ISSN:

1018-5941

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