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Coping with Falling Oil Prices: The Different Fortunes of African Banks

By Cheikh A. Gueye, Asithandile Mbelu, Amadou N Sy

June 17, 2019

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Cheikh A. Gueye, Asithandile Mbelu, and Amadou N Sy. Coping with Falling Oil Prices: The Different Fortunes of African Banks, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

This paper studies the impact of declining oil prices on banks in sub-Saharan African oil-exporting countries. Results indicate that banks respond differently to an oil shock depending on their ownership: (i) domestic banks are the most adversely impacted and experience a deterioration in asset quality and liquidity; (ii) foreign-owned banks are the most resilient as they are able to improve asset quality and attract deposits but at the same time, they decelerate credit growth; in contrast, (iii) Pan-African Banks help stabilize overall credit but large banks in that segment experience reduced asset quality. These differentiated results suggest a tradeoff between maintaining credit growth and safeguarding financial stability in an oil slump which could be addressed by both micro- and macroprudential policies.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Financial institutions, Foreign banks, Government securities, Money, Nonperforming loans, Oil prices, Prices

Keywords: Bank, Bank characteristic, Bank characteristics, Bank control, Bank ownership, Credit, Credit growth, Deposit growth, Domestic banks, Foreign banks, Foreign-owned banks, Government securities, Non-performing loans, Nonperforming loans, Oil price, Oil price growth, Oil price shock, Oil prices, PAB bank, Pan-African banks, Price, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    28

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2019/129

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2019129

  • ISBN:

    9781498317795

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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