Credit Cyclicality in Chile: A Cross-Country Analysis

March 1, 2008

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Ludvig Söderling. Credit Cyclicality in Chile: A Cross-Country Analysis, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper analyzes the determinants of credit cyclicality. It constructs a financial development index and studies whether it affects the amplitude of impulse responses to shocks to output, terms of trade, global liquidity, and global risk appetite. The paper uses both country-specific VARs for cross-country analyses and panel VARs to compare impulse responses between various country groupings. The study finds evidence that financial development-especially stronger creditor rights-can mitigate credit cyclicality, given that the response of credit to output or terms of trade shocks is stronger in countries with weaker financial systems.

Subject: Consumer credit, Credit, Financial frictions, Financial sector development, Terms of trade

Keywords: Chile, Lender, Market, WP

Publication Details

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21
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Working Paper No. 2008/055
Stock No:

WPIEA2008055
ISBN:

9781451869170
ISSN:

1018-5941

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