Credit booms, financial fragility and banking crises

David Fielding and Johan Rewilak

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 136, issue C, 233-236

Abstract: Using a new country-level panel database, we explore effect of capital inflow surges, credit booms and financial fragility on the probability of banking crises. We find that booms increase the probability of a crisis only in relatively fragile financial systems.

Keywords: Panel data; Financial crises; Financial fragility; Credit booms; Capital surges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 G01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.09.041

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