German bank lending during emerging market crises: A bank level analysis

Frank Heid, Thorsten Nestmann, Beatrice Weder and Natalja Valeria von Westernhagen ()

No 2004,04, Discussion Paper Series 2: Banking and Financial Studies from Deutsche Bundesbank, Research Centre

Abstract: This paper studies German bank lending during the Asian and Russian crises, using a bank level data set, which has been compiled from credit data at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Our aim is to gain more insight into the pattern of German bank lending during financial crises in emerging markets. We find that German banks reacted to the Asian crisis mainly by reallocating their portfolios among emerging markets. This behaviour is consistent with active portfolio management and does not necessarily indicate a spontaneous reaction to the Asian crisis. By contrast, the banks’ behaviour during the Russian crisis is characterised by a general withdrawal from emerging markets. The use of micro data allows us to analyse and to model bank heterogeneity with panel estimation techniques. We find that the lending of large commercial banks was less stable than the lending of public sector banks during the Asian crisis. Differences were not as pronounced during the Russian crisis.

Keywords: banking; currency crises; emerging markets crises; contagion; financial stability; bank lending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 F32 F34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2004
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