TY  - BOOK
AU  - Igan,Deniz
AU  - Tamirisa,Natalia T.
TI  - Are Weak Banks Leading Credit Booms? Evidence from Emerging Europe
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451870779 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Bank
KW  - imf
KW  - Boom
KW  - Equation
KW  - Net Interest Margin
KW  - Soundness
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Czech Republic
KW  - Hungary
KW  - Lithuania
KW  - Poland
KW  - Slovak Republic
N2  - This paper examines the behavior of bank soundness indicators during episodes of brisk loan growth, using bank-level data for central and eastern Europe and controlling for the feedback effect of credit growth on bank soundness. No evidence is found that rapid loan expansion has weakened banks during the last decade, but over time weaker banks seem to have started to expand at least as fast as, and in some markets faster than, stronger banks. These findings suggest that during credit booms supervisors need to carefully monitor the soundness of rapidly expanding banks and stand ready to take action to limit the expansion of weak banks
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