Determinants of Zombie Banks in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies

Download or read book Determinants of Zombie Banks in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies written by Torsten Wezel and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While deeply undercapitalized banks have been shown to misallocate credit to weak firms, the drivers of such zombie banks are less researched, particularly across countries. To furnish empirical evidence, we compile a dataset of undercapitalized banks from emerging markets and developing economies. We classify zombie banks as those not receiving remedial treatment by owners or regulators or, alternatively, remaining chronically undercapitalized. Using logit regressions, we find that country-specific factors are more influential for zombie status than bank characteristics, alhough some become significant when disaggreating by region. The paper’s overall findings imply the need for a proper regulatory framework and an effective resolution regime to deal with zombie banks more decisively.