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The Dynamics of Non-Performing Loans during Banking Crises: A New Database

By Anil Ari, Sophia Chen, Lev Ratnovski

December 6, 2019

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Anil Ari, Sophia Chen, and Lev Ratnovski. The Dynamics of Non-Performing Loans during Banking Crises: A New Database, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

This paper presents a new dataset on the dynamics of non-performing loans (NPLs) during 88 banking crises since 1990. The data show similarities across crises during NPL build-ups but less so during NPL resolutions. We find a close relationship between NPL problems—elevated and unresolved NPLs—and the severity of post-crisis recessions. A machine learning approach identifies a set of pre-crisis predictors of NPL problems related to weak macroeconomic, institutional, corporate, and banking sector conditions. Our findings suggest that reducing pre-crisis vulnerabilities and promptly addressing NPL problems during a crisis are important for post-crisis output recovery.

Subject: Banking crises, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Loans, Nonperforming loans, Public debt

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Banking crises, Banking crisis, Elevated NPL, Elevated npls, Europe, Global, Loans, Nonperforming loans, NPL dynamics, NPL ratio, NPL resolution, Peak NPL, Peak npls, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    40

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2019/272

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2019272

  • ISBN:

    9781513521152

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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