1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788692603321

Autore

Sanya Sarah

Titolo

Post-Crisis Bank Behavior : : Lessons From Mercosur / / Sarah Sanya, Montfort Mlachila

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2010

ISBN

1-4623-9611-9

1-4527-9848-6

1-283-57050-5

9786613882950

1-4519-1850-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

MlachilaMontfort

Soggetti

Banks and banking

Convergence (Economics)

Banks and Banking

Financial Risk Management

Money and Monetary Policy

Macroeconomics

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

Financing Policy

Financial Risk and Risk Management

Capital and Ownership Structure

Value of Firms

Goodwill

Bankruptcy

Liquidation

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Financial Crises

Banking

Monetary economics

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Bank credit

Financial crises



Credit

Commercial banks

Money

Banking crises

Systemic crises

Argentina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Banking Crises in Mercosur; A. General Overview of Post-Crisis Banking Behavior; B. The Evolution of Bank Crises in Mercosur; III. Methodology and Data Issues; A. The Concept of Convergence and Bank Behavior; B. The Regression Framework; C. Data Sources and Issues; IV. The Results; A. Descriptive Statistics; Tables; 1. Mercosur: Bank Behavior Summary Statistics; B. Regression Analysis; 2. Correlations Between Selected Variables; 3. Summary Results for Absolute and Conditional Convergence; Figures; 1. Ratio of Public Sector Credit to Gross Domestic Product

2. Ratio of Private Sector Credit to Gross Domestic Product 4. Results for Absolute and Conditional Sigma Convergence by Country; 5. Results for Absolute and Conditional Sigma Convergence by Countries; V. Robustness Tests; A. Alternative Benchmarks; B. Results; 6. Summary Results for Sigma Convergence Using Chile and Norway as Alternative Benchmarks; 3. Ratio of Loans to Assets; 4. Ratio of Private Sector Credit to Gross Domestic Product; 5. Capitalization; C. The Behavior of Foreign and Large Banks; 6. Commercial Bank's Reserves to Gross Domestic Product

7. Absolute Sigma Convergence by Bank Type VI. Concluding Remarks; Appendix; I. Variable Definitions and Sources; References

Sommario/riassunto

Did the occurrence of systemic banking crises in the 1990s and 2000s significantly alter the behavior of banks in the Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the Mercosur region. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to apply the convergence methodology-which is common in the growth literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference, credit supply, and risk. The paper finds that most indicators of bank behavior, such as profitability, in fact revert to previous or more normal levels. However, a key finding of the paper is that private sector intermediation is significantly reduced for prolonged periods of time and that high levels excess liquidity persist well after the crisis.