The Credit Boom in the EU New Member States : Bad Luck or Bad Policies?

In the past decade, most of the EU New Member States experienced a severe credit-boom bust cycle. This paper argues that the credit boom-bust cycle was to a large extent the result of factors external to the region ('bad luck'). Rapid credit growth followed from a high liquidity in global...

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Ente Autore: International Monetary Fund
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/130
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF