Capital inflows, credit booms, and macroeconomic vulnerability: the cross-country experience

The turbulence in financial markets is Southeast Asia in 1997-98 and the crisis in Mexico in 1994-95 have renewed interest among policymarkers in the issues of capital account liberalization and financial sector reform. In all the East Asian cases and in Mexico, as well as in many other earlier epis...

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Autores principales: Hernández T., Leonardo, Landerretche M., Óscar
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spelling oai-20.500.12580-36422021-04-24T10:57:00Z Capital inflows, credit booms, and macroeconomic vulnerability: the cross-country experience Hernández T., Leonardo Landerretche M., Óscar MERCADO FINANCIERO The turbulence in financial markets is Southeast Asia in 1997-98 and the crisis in Mexico in 1994-95 have renewed interest among policymarkers in the issues of capital account liberalization and financial sector reform. In all the East Asian cases and in Mexico, as well as in many other earlier episodes such as that of Chile in the late 1970s, countries that saw a rapid growth in bank credit typically experienced a financial crisis later on. Bank lending booms in these emerging market economies, often financed by a surge in capital inflows, led to everborrowing and asset price inflation, exacerbating financial fragility and macroeconomic vulnerability. This pattern has led several authors to argue in favor of imposing capital controls to avoid the excesses in financial markets that can lead to distress and crisis. 2019-11-01T00:01:25Z 2019-11-01T00:01:25Z 2002 Artículo 956-7421-072 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12580/3642 eng Serieson Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies, no. 3 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ .pdf Sección o Parte de un Documento p. 199-233 application/pdf Banco Central de Chile
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Hernández T., Leonardo
Landerretche M., Óscar
Capital inflows, credit booms, and macroeconomic vulnerability: the cross-country experience
description The turbulence in financial markets is Southeast Asia in 1997-98 and the crisis in Mexico in 1994-95 have renewed interest among policymarkers in the issues of capital account liberalization and financial sector reform. In all the East Asian cases and in Mexico, as well as in many other earlier episodes such as that of Chile in the late 1970s, countries that saw a rapid growth in bank credit typically experienced a financial crisis later on. Bank lending booms in these emerging market economies, often financed by a surge in capital inflows, led to everborrowing and asset price inflation, exacerbating financial fragility and macroeconomic vulnerability. This pattern has led several authors to argue in favor of imposing capital controls to avoid the excesses in financial markets that can lead to distress and crisis.
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title Capital inflows, credit booms, and macroeconomic vulnerability: the cross-country experience
title_short Capital inflows, credit booms, and macroeconomic vulnerability: the cross-country experience
title_full Capital inflows, credit booms, and macroeconomic vulnerability: the cross-country experience
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