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An Anatomy of Credit Booms: Evidence From Macro Aggregates and Micro Data

By Marco Terrones, Enrique G. Mendoza

September 1, 2008

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Marco Terrones, and Enrique G. Mendoza An Anatomy of Credit Booms: Evidence From Macro Aggregates and Micro Data, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

We study the characteristics of credit booms in emerging and industrial economies. Macro data show a systematic relationship between credit booms and economic expansions, rising asset prices, real appreciations and widening external deficits. Micro data show a strong association between credit booms and leverage ratios, firm values, and banking fragility. We also find that credit booms are larger in emerging economies, particularly in the nontradables sector; most emerging markets crises are associated with credit booms; and credit booms in emerging economies are often preceded by large capital inflows but not by financial reforms or productivity gains.

Subject: Capital inflows, Credit, Credit booms, Financial crises, Sudden stops

Keywords: Business cycle, Credit boom, Credit boom event, Credit booms in Chile, Credit expansion, Credit issuance, Credit transmission channel, Credit transmission mechanisms, Credit-GDP ratio, Current account, Dynamics of macro, Private sector, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    50

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2008/226

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2008226

  • ISBN:

    9781451870848

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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