Lending Booms, Real Estate Bubbles and the Asian Crisis /

This paper examines the link between lending booms, asset price cycles, and financial crises across East Asian countries. Both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence support a strong relationship between bank lending and asset price inflation, especially in the real estate market. While asset...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Senhadji, Abdelhak
Other Authors: Collyns, Charles
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/020
Online Access:Full text available on IMF