Why Did Public Banks Lend More During the Global Financial Crisis?

June 5, 2020

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Joshua Bosshardt, and Eugenio M Cerutti. Why Did Public Banks Lend More During the Global Financial Crisis?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

During the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), state-owned or public banks lent relatively more than domestic private banks in many countries. However, data limitations have hindered a thorough assessment of what led public banks to better maintain lending during the GFC. Using a novel bank-level dataset covering 25 emerging market economies, we show that public banks lent relatively more during the GFC because they pursued an objective of helping to stabilize the economy, rather than because they had superior fundamentals or access to public or depositors’ funding. Nonetheless, their countercyclical behavior seems unique to the GFC rather than a regular characteristic of public banks before and after the GFC.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Global financial crisis of 2008-2009, Loans, Money, Nonperforming loans, State-owned banks

Keywords: Bank, Bank credit, Bank fundamentals, Credit crunch, Crisis, Development bank, Fastest-growing bank, Financial crisis, Global, Global financial crisis, Global financial crisis of 2008-2009, Lending, Loan portfolio, Loans, Loans growth, Nonperforming loans, Ownership status, State-owned banks, WP

Publication Details

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36
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Working Paper No. 2020/084
Stock No:

WPIEA2020084
ISBN:

9781513546049
ISSN:

1018-5941

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