Book(electronic)2009

Foreign Banks in the CESE Countries

In: IMF Working Papers

In: IMF working paper WP/09/54

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to construct a comprehensive and consistent dataset to analyze the potential risks from foreign bank lending, for both the creditor and borrower countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESE). We develop a picture of bank claims on 13 CESE countries by combining credit statistics from several sources. Our constructed data suggest that some of these host countries have become more at risk from a sudden withdrawal of short-term external funding, while home countries have significant aggregate exposures to the region. Overall, we find that data on banking a

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English

Publisher

International Monetary Fund

ISBN

9781451872026

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