Are Weak Banks Leading Credit Booms? : Evidence from Emerging Europe /

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 durin...

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1. Verfasser: Igan, Deniz
Weitere Verfasser: Tamirisa, Natalia
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/219
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF