Foreign Banks and Credit Dynamics in CESEE

January 5, 2018

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Maria Arakelyan. Foreign Banks and Credit Dynamics in CESEE, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2018) accessed October 6, 2024

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Summary

We use bank-level data on 16 CESEE economies over 2005-2014 to assess the role of foreign banks in the region’s credit dynamics. We confirm that macroeconomic fundamentals of both host and home countries matter, as do the bank and parent bank characteristics. Moreover, we take a new approach by studying the drivers of differential credit growth between parent banks and their foreign subsidiaries. Host country macroeconomic fundamentals cease to play a significant role, while bank-level characteristics and in particular parent bank-level characteristics remain important. From policymakers’ perspective, the paper provides further empirical evidence on the importance of monitoring the health of foreign parent banks as well as the potential regulatory changes in their home jurisdictions.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Credit, Credit booms, Financial institutions, Foreign banks, Money, Nonperforming loans

Keywords: Bank characteristic, Bank credit, Bank lending, Bank Ownership Database, Bank ownership information, Bank subsidiary, Credit, Credit booms, Credit growth, Eastern Europe, Emerging europe, Foreign bank, Foreign banks, Global, Growth dynamics, Nonperforming loans, Parent bank, Return on average assets, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

32
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2018/003
Stock No:

WPIEA2018003
ISBN:

9781484336779
ISSN:

1018-5941

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