Bank lending behavior and housing market booms: The Australian evidence

Shuyun May Li, Sandy Suardi and Benjamin Wee

International Review of Economics & Finance, 2022, vol. 81, issue C, 184-204

Abstract: The emerging literature on bank lending during an asset price boom has focused on the U.S. economy before the GFC when the housing market peaked. Following this line of research, this paper studies the Australian economy with its unique banking industry and sustained housing market boom. Results from the single equation and the panel vector autoregression (PVAR) show evidence of crowding out of business loans towards housing loans in response to increased opportunities in strong housing markets, which in turn curtails business investment. In contrast to Chakraborty et al. (2018), such a crowding-out effect is evident only in the Big Four banks, which are dominant and less capital constrained lenders in the credit market. Further examination shows that regulatory advantage enjoyed by and the profit-seeking motives of the Big Four banks might underscore the findings. We do not find a significant crowding-out effect on consumer credit.

Keywords: Bank loans; Housing price; Housing loans; Business loans; Crowding out (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G31 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2022.05.006

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