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Do Dynamic Provisions Enhance Bank Solvency and Reduce Credit Procyclicality? a Study of the Chilean Banking System

By Jorge A Chan-Lau

May 1, 2012

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Jorge A Chan-Lau. Do Dynamic Provisions Enhance Bank Solvency and Reduce Credit Procyclicality? a Study of the Chilean Banking System, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed November 25, 2024
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Summary

Dynamic provisions could help to enhance the solvency of individual banks and reduce procyclicality. Accomplishing these objectives depends on country-specific features of the banking system, business practices, and the calibration of the dynamic provisions scheme. In the case of Chile, a simulation analysis suggests Spanish dynamic provisions would improve banks' resilience to adverse shocks but would not reduce procyclicality. To address the latter, other countercyclical measures should be considered.

Subject: Bank solvency, Banking, Credit, Domestic credit, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Loans, Money, Procyclicality

Keywords: Bank, Bank solvency, Banks, Buffer shift, Chile, Countercyclical provision rule Peru, Credit, Domestic credit, Dynamic provision, Dynamic provisions, Global, Loan, Loan loss, Loans, Procyclicality, Provision, Provision buffer, Provision cycle, Provisions regime, Regimes process, Simulation, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    21

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2012/124

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2012124

  • ISBN:

    9781475503531

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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