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American Economic Review: Vol. 102 No. 3 (May 2012)
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Flight Home, Flight Abroad, and International Credit Cycles
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Giannetti, Mariassunta, and
Luc Laeven. 2012. "Flight Home, Flight Abroad, and International Credit Cycles."
American Economic Review,
102(3): 219-24.
DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.219
DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.219
Abstract
This paper shows that banks exhibit a weaker (stronger) home bias in the extension of new loans when funding conditions in their home country improve (deteriorate). We refer to these changes in home bias as flight abroad and flight home effects, respectively, and show that they are unrelated to the better known flight to quality effect that arises during periods of market turmoil. Our results also indicate that global banks amplify the effect of homegrown shocks on foreign countries while they are a stabilizing factor for the supply of credit in their home countries.
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Giannetti, Mariassunta (Stockholm School of Economics)
Laeven, Luc (IMF)
Laeven, Luc (IMF)
JEL Classifications
G21: Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
E44: Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
F42: International Policy Coordination and Transmission
F44: International Business Cycles
E44: Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
F42: International Policy Coordination and Transmission
F44: International Business Cycles
