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Credit booms, financial fragility and banking crises

Economics Letters (2015) 136 233-236
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.09.041
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Using a new country-level panel database, we explore effect of capital inflow surges, credit booms and financial fragility on the probability of banking crises. We find that booms increase the probability of a crisis only in relatively fragile financial systems.

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Fielding, D., & Rewilak, J. (2015). Credit booms, financial fragility and banking crises. Economics Letters, 136, 233–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.09.041

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