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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822179503321

Autore

Juan-Ramon V

Titolo

Banks During the Argentine Crisis : : Were they All Hurt Equally? Did they All Behave Equally? / / V. Juan-Ramon, Emiliano Basco, Carlos Quarracino, Adolfo Barajas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-5788-1

1-4527-7336-X

1-283-51813-9

1-4519-0838-5

9786613830586

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (42 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

BascoEmiliano

QuarracinoCarlos

BarajasAdolfo

Soggetti

Banks and banking - Argentina

Bank failures - Argentina

Financial crises - Argentina

Banks and Banking

Money and Monetary Policy

Exports and Imports

International Finance: General

Open Economy Macroeconomics

Information and Market Efficiency

Event Studies

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

International Lending and Debt Problems

Banking

Monetary economics

International economics



Bank deposits

Currencies

Commercial banks

Foreign currency exposure

Money

Financial services

Financial institutions

External debt

Banks and banking

Foreign exchange market

Debts, External

Argentina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 2006."

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. OVERVIEW OF THE ARGENTINE BANKS IN THE RUN-UP TO THE CRISIS""; ""III. DESCRIPTIVE LOOK AT ARGENTINE BANKS IN THE 1995�2001 PERIOD""; ""IV. ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

The simple answer to both questions in the title of this paper is: No. We concentrate on the three main risk elements that contributed to the banking system’s difficulties during the crisis: increasing dollarization of the balance sheet, expanding exposure to the government, and, eventually, the run on deposits. We find that there was substantial cross-bank variation in these elements—that is, not all banks were hurt equally by macroeconomic shocks. Furthermore, using panel data estimation for the 1998–2001 period, we find that depositors were able to distinguish high- from low-risk banks, and that individual banks’ exposure to currency and government default risk depended on bank fundamentals and other characteristics. Thus, not all banks behaved equally in the run-up to the crisis. Finally, our results have implications for the existence of market discipline in periods of stress and for banking regulation, which may have led banks to underestimate some of the risks they incurred.