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‘Lazy banks’: the case of Egypt

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  • Gamal Haikal
  • Islam Abdelbary
  • Dina Samir

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The past decade has witnessed an acute acceleration of government borrowing in Egypt compared to the preceding thirty years. This was accompanied by a structural change toward more reliance on foreign debt. In the frame of these changes, the paper employs a VECM model to test the Egyptian banking sector for the “Lazy Bank“ hypothesis. The research extends the conventional crowding effect analysis to include households borrowing. The main conclusion is that government and households borrowing from the domestic banks in Egypt led to over one-to-one crowding out of private business credit.

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  • Gamal Haikal & Islam Abdelbary & Dina Samir, 2023. "‘Lazy banks’: the case of Egypt," Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3), pages 447-457, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:macfem:v:16:y:2023:i:3:p:447-457
    DOI: 10.1080/17520843.2021.1998743
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