IMF Working Papers

The Nordic Banking Crises: Pitfalls in Financial Liberalization?

By Burkhard Drees, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu

June 1, 1995

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Burkhard Drees, and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu. The Nordic Banking Crises: Pitfalls in Financial Liberalization?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed November 24, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines the recent banking crises in Finland, Norway and Sweden in an attempt to draw some policy conclusions from their experiences. In all three countries, the timing of deregulation coincided with a strongly expansionary macroeconomic momentum. Delayed policy responses, as well as structural characteristics of the financial systems, and banks’ inadequate internal risk management controls were important determinants of the consequences of the transition from tightly regulated to more or less competitive financial systems. In the absence of strengthened prudential banking supervision, these incentives coupled with expectations of government intervention in the event of a crisis prompted many Nordic banks to increase their lending excessively.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Distressed assets, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Loans, Money

Keywords: Asset-based lending, Bank credit, Beneficiary bank, Capital base, Commercial banks, Credit, Credit market, Credit rationing, Distressed assets, Equity capital, Financial system, Foreign currency, Funding cost, Loan loss, Loans, Market share, Parent company, Price competition, Support measure, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    70

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1995/061

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0611995

  • ISBN:

    9781451848113

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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