Does the banking sector structure matter for credit procyclicality?

Vincent Bouvatier, Antonia López-Villavicencio and Valérie Mignon ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Antonia López Villavicencio

Economic Modelling, 2012, vol. 29, issue 4, 1035-1044

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the banking sector structure matters in explaining credit procyclicality for 17 OECD countries over the 1986–2010 period. To this end, we first provide a detailed classification of the banking system structure through the use of a hierarchical clustering methodology. Relying on the estimation of panel VAR models and accounting for potential heterogeneity between countries, we then propose a measure of credit procyclicality based on the impulse-response function of credit to a shock in GDP. Our findings show that while credit significantly responds to shocks in GDP, the structure of the banking sector is not a key factor in assessing the procyclicality of credit for OECD countries.

Keywords: Credit cycle; Economic cycle; Banking sector structure; Financial stability; Panel VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 E32 E51 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.03.012

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