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Credit booms, financial fragility and banking crises

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  • Fielding, David
  • Rewilak, Johan

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Using a new country-level panel database, we explore effect of capital inflow surges, credit booms and financial fragility on the probability of banking crises. We find that booms increase the probability of a crisis only in relatively fragile financial systems.

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  • Fielding, David & Rewilak, Johan, 2015. "Credit booms, financial fragility and banking crises," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 233-236.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:136:y:2015:i:c:p:233-236
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.09.041
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    Keywords

    Panel data; Financial crises; Financial fragility; Credit booms; Capital surges;
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    JEL classification:

    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises

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