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Capital Flows, Credit Booms and Bank Crises

by Joseph Joyce Capital Flows, Credit Booms and Bank Crises Studies of the impact of capital inflows have established that debt inflows can lead to bank crises (see here and here). Unlike equity, payments on debt are contractual and can not be cancelled if there is an economic downturn, which intensifies any shocks to the […]