Bank Recycling of Petro Dollars to Emerging Market Economies During the Current Oil Price Boom /

High oil prices have once again led to large external surpluses of oil exporting countries, similar to the 1970s and 1980s. This paper analyzes the extent to which (i) oil exporters use bank deposits to invest these surpluses, and (ii) banks are lending on these funds to emerging market economies. B...

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Main Author: Wiegand, Johannes
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/180
Online Access:Full text available on IMF