Banks' Holdings of Government Securities and Credit to the Private Sector in Emerging Market and Developing Economies /

This paper studies the relationship between banks' holdings of domestic sovereign securities and credit growth to the private sector in emerging market and developing economies. Higher banks' holdings of government debt are associated with a lower credit growth to the private sector and wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bouis, Romain
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/224
Online Access:Full text available on IMF