Global Banks and International Shock Transmission: Evidence from the Crisis

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Nicola Cetorelli

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Linda S. Goldberg

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: May 2010

Abstract

Global banks played a significant role in the transmission of the 2007 to 2009 crisis to emerging market economies. We examine the relationships between adverse liquidity shocks on main developed-country banking systems to emerging markets across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, isolating loan supply from loan demand effects. Loan supply in emerging markets was significantly affected through three separate channels: a contraction in direct, cross-border lending by foreign banks; a contraction in local lending by foreign banks' affiliates in emerging markets; and a contraction in loan supply by domestic banks resulting from the funding shock to their balance sheet induced by the decline in interbank, cross-border lending. Policy interventions, such as the Vienna Initiative introduced in Europe, influenced the lending channel effects on emerging markets of head office balance sheet shocks.

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Cetorelli, Nicola and Goldberg, Linda S., Global Banks and International Shock Transmission: Evidence from the Crisis (May 2010). NBER Working Paper No. w15974, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1601725

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