Default, Credit Growth, and Asset Prices

Author/creator Goodhart, C. A. E. Author
Other author Basurto, Miguel A. Segoviano Author
Other author Hofmann, Boris Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWashington : International Monetary Fund
Description53 p.
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Summary Annotation This paper uses a Merton-type estimate of the probability of default (PoD) for the main banks in a sample of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and middle-income countries as a proxy for the fragility of their banking systems. Based on theory and stylized facts, the paper explores a range of financial and real variables that explain such PoDs across time. We find property price fluctuations and bank credit to be important explanatory factors. There is two-way interaction between these variables and a clearer relationship when the variables are entered as a deviation from trend. the lag structure between such developments and PoDs is long and varies widely across countries. the paper assesses the implications of these findings for economic policy.
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