 Foreign banks and credit conditions in EMEsTorsten Ehlers and Patrick McGuire A chapter in Financial systems and the real economy, 2017, vol. 91, pp 101-123 from Bank for International Settlements Abstract: A large literature assesses the benefits that foreign banks bring to emerging market economies (EMEs), drawing evidence from datasets that track the ownership of banks located in a particular country. Similarly, previous work has demonstrated that crossborder credit – both direct cross-border credit and indirect cross-border credit that is routed via resident banks – fuelled the boom-bust credit cycle in EMEs around the 2007?09 financial crisis. This paper explores this credit cycle from a different perspective, using a dataset that simultaneously delineates between bank ownership and the location of the borrowers. This helps to isolate the share of total bank credit – which includes domestic credit and cross-border credit to non-banks – that is provided by foreign banks, a measure that is not possible to construct using the standard ownership datasets. The results suggest that cross-border credit did exacerbate the credit cycle, but that foreign banks did not necessarily have a destabilising effect since their local operations (ie local lending funded in the local currency) were a source of stability. In short, what matters is the type of bank claim rather than bank ownership. JEL-codes: F34 G01 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bis:bisbpc:91-10 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in BIS Papers chapters from Bank for International Settlements Contact information at EDIRC. |
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