Foreign Banks and Credit Dynamics in CESEE

Download or read book Foreign Banks and Credit Dynamics in CESEE written by Maria Arakelyan and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We use bank-level data on 16 CESEE economies over 2005-2014 to assess the role of foreign banks in the region’s credit dynamics. We confirm that macroeconomic fundamentals of both host and home countries matter, as do the bank and parent bank characteristics. Moreover, we take a new approach by studying the drivers of differential credit growth between parent banks and their foreign subsidiaries. Host country macroeconomic fundamentals cease to play a significant role, while bank-level characteristics and in particular parent bank-level characteristics remain important. From policymakers’ perspective, the paper provides further empirical evidence on the importance of monitoring the health of foreign parent banks as well as the potential regulatory changes in their home jurisdictions.