Why are credit booms sometimes sweet and sometimes sour?

Vitor Castro and Rodrigo Martins

No 2018-14, CeBER Working Papers from Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), University of Coimbra

Abstract: This paper investigates the commonalities and differences between benign credit booms and those that end up in banking crises by employing a Multinomial and a Sequential Logit model over a panel of industrial and developing countries. Some economic, political and institutional factors are found to play an important role in understanding the credit booms dynamics. In particular, this study shows that the quantity and price of credit, liquidity in the economy, economic growth, openness of the economy, government orientation, political stability and Central Bank independence are relevant to explain not only the occurrence of credit booms but also – and most importantly – whether they end up in a systemic banking crisis or not. While a better economic environment and Central Bank independence are essential for both industrial and developing countries to avoid credit booms from going badly, political factors seem to exert a stronger influence in developing countries.

Keywords: Credit booms; Multinomial Logit; Sequential Logit; Government Ideology; Central Bank Independence. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 D72 E32 E51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2018-12
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