Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/115470 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-512
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper studies whether lending by foreign banks is affected by financial crises. The paper pairs a bank-level dataset of foreign ownership with information on banking crises and examines whether the credit supply of majority foreignowned banks that underwent home-country crises differs systematically from that of other foreign banks. The baseline results show that banks exposed to homecountry crises in 2007 and 2008 exhibit changes in lending patterns that are lower by between 13 and 42 percent than their non-crisis counterparts. This finding is robust to potential alternative explanations and also holds, though less strongly, for the 1997-98 Asian crisis.
Subjects: 
Foreign bank ownership
Financial crisis
Bank lending
JEL: 
G21
G01
F34
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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