Default, Credit Growth, and Asset Prices /

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...

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Main Author: Goodhart, C.
Other Authors: Hofmann, Boris, Segoviano, Miguel
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/223
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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