Macro-financial linkages and bank behaviour: evidence from the second-round effects of the global financial crisis on East Asia

Le, Chau H. A. (2016) Macro-financial linkages and bank behaviour: evidence from the second-round effects of the global financial crisis on East Asia. Eurasian Economic Review, 6 (3). pp. 365-387. ISSN 1309-422X

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Abstract

This paper studies the link between macro-financial variability and bank behaviour, which justifies the second-round effects of the global financial crisis on East Asia. Following Gallego et al. (The impact of the global economic and financial crisis on Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe (CESEE) and Latin America, 2010), the second round effects are defined as the adverse feedback loop from the slumps in economic activities and sharp financial market deterioration, which may influence the financial performance of bank, inter alia via deteriorating credit quality, declining profitability and increasing problems in retaining necessary capitalization. Differentiating itself from other research, this study stresses adjustments in four dimensions of bank performance and behaviour: asset quality, profitability, capital adequacy, and lending behaviour, assuming that any change in a bank-specific characteristic is induced by endogenous adjustments of the others. The empirical results based on partial adjustment models and two-step system GMM estimation show that bank’s adjustment behaviour is subject to the variation in the macro-financial environment and the stress condition in the global financial market. There is no convincing evidence to support the effectiveness of policy rate cut to boots bank lending and to avoid a financial accelerator effect.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	bank behaviour,macro-financial linkages,global financial crisis,financial contagion,the second round effect
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Applied Econometrics And Finance
Related URLs:	http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s40822-...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Nov 2018 16:30
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 04:14
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68786
DOI:	10.1007/s40822-016-0048-7

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