Capital Flows and Economic Fluctuations : The Role of Commercial Banks in Transmitting Shocks /

This paper uses a general equilibrium model to examine the central role played by commercial banks in intermediating and amplifying the capital flow shocks to the local economy in the 1997 Asia financial crisis. It finds that a sudden stop of capital inflows affects the equilibrium credit supply thr...

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Main Author: Zhou, Yong Sarah
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/012
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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