Banks' Precautionary Capital and Persistent Credit Crunches /

Periods of banking distress are often followed by sizable and long-lasting contractions in bank credit. They may be explained by a declined demand by financially impaired borrowers (the conventional financial accelerator) or by lower supply by capital-constrained banks, a "credit crunch"....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Valencia, Fabian
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/248
Online Access:Full text available on IMF