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Credit Misallocation and Economic Growth in Vietnam

By Mitsuru Katagiri

September 6, 2019

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Mitsuru Katagiri. Credit Misallocation and Economic Growth in Vietnam, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

The legacy of non-performing loans and high opportunity cost of government financing of bank recapitalization impeded the efficiency of financial intermediation and are an important policy issue in Vietnam. This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the issue. An empirical analysis using corporate data indicates credit misallocation between state owned enterprises and private firms in Vietnam. On the theoretical side, a micro-founded banking model is embedded in a political economy setting to assess the factors determining the size of bank recapitalization and its effects on the efficiency of financial intermediation, economic growth and welfare. The analysis suggests that recapitalization depends on an array of factors, including the tightness of the government budget and the decision maker’s concern for the favored sector.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Countercyclical capital buffers, Credit, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Loans, Money, Nonperforming loans

Keywords: Asset return, Bank credit, Bank refrain, Countercyclical capital buffers, Credit, Credit misallocation, Forbearance lending, Loans, Nonperforming loans, NPL resolution, Optimization problem, Profitability measure, Public funds, Recapitalization policy, Representative bank, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2019/189

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2019189

  • ISBN:

    9781513511764

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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