Default, Credit Growth, and Asset Prices

C. Goodhart, Miguel Segoviano and Boris Hofmann

No 2006/223, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper uses a Merton-type estimate of the probability of default (PoD) for the main banks in a sample of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and middle-income countries as a proxy for the fragility of their banking systems. Based on theory and stylized facts, the paper explores a range of financial and real variables that explain such PoDs across time. We find property price fluctuations and bank credit to be important explanatory factors. There is two-way interaction between these variables and a clearer relationship when the variables are entered as a deviation from trend. The lag structure between such developments and PoDs is long and varies widely across countries. The paper assesses the implications of these findings for economic policy.

Keywords: WP; asset price; price bubble; property price; bank lending; Probability of default; credit risk; systemic risk; macroeconomic shocks; stress testing; financial surveillance; price variable; property boom; asset gap variable; asset price dynamics; asset price shock; asset price fluctuation; asset price surge; equity price; assets decrease; short interest; bank PoDs; asset price gap; Asset prices; Bank credit; Land prices; Credit; Financial statistics; East Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43
Date: 2006-09-01
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