Why Are Canadian Banks More Resilient?

Lev Ratnovski and Rocco Huang

No 09/152, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper explores factors behind Canadian banks' relative resilience in the ongoing credit turmoil. We identify two main causes: a higher share of depository funding (vs. wholesale funding) in liabilities, and a number of regulatory and structural factors in the Canadian market that reduced banks' incentives to take excessive risks. The robust predictive power of the depository funding ratio is confirmed in a multivariate analysis of the performance of 72 largest commercial banks in OECD countries during the turmoil.

Keywords: Bank regulations; Banking crisis; Banking sector; Canada; Commercial banks; Cross country analysis; Depositories; Economic models; Financial stability; Monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-07-20
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