The role of household and business credit in banking crises

Berrak Büyükkarabacak and Neven T. Valev
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Berrak BAHADIR

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2010, vol. 34, issue 6, 1247-1256

Abstract: Private credit expansions are an important predictor of subsequent banking crises. We revisit that result with a new dataset from developed and developing countries that decomposes private credit into household credit and enterprise credit. We argue that household credit growth raises debt levels without much effect on long-term income. Rapid household credit expansions generate vulnerabilities that can precipitate a banking crisis. Enterprise credit expansions can have the same effects but it is tempered by the associated increase in income. Our estimates show that household credit expansions have been a statistically and economically significant predictor of banking crises. Enterprise credit expansions are also associated with banking crises but their effect is weaker and less robust.

Keywords: Banking; crisis; Household; and; business; credit; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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