When is U.S. bank lending to emerging markets volatile?
By: Linda S. Goldberg.
Contributors: Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Series: Staff reports ;; no. 119; Staff reports (Federal Reserve Bank of New York : Online) ;; no. 119.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Loans, American -- Developing countries -- Econometric models.; Bank investments -- Developing countries.
Genres: Econometric models.
Description: "Using bank-specific data on U.S. bank claims on individual foreign countries since the mid-1980s, this paper (1) characterizes the size and portfolio diversification patterns of the U.S. banks engaging in foreign lending, and (2) econometrically explores the determinants of fluctuations in U.S. bank claims on a broad set of countries.  U.S. bank claims on Latin American and Asian emerging markets, and on industrialized countries, are sensitive to U.S.  macroeconomic conditions.  When the United States grows rapidly, there is substitution between claims on industrialized countries and claims on the United States.  The pattern of response of claims on emerging markets to U.S. conditions differs across banks of different sizes and across emerging market regions.  Moreover, we find that, unlike U.S.  bank claims on industrialized countries, claims on emerging markets are not highly sensitive to local country GDP and interest rates"--Federal Reserve Bank of New York web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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