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Nonperforming Loans and Macrofinancial Vulnerabilities in Advanced Economies

By Mwanza Nkusu

July 1, 2011

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Mwanza Nkusu. Nonperforming Loans and Macrofinancial Vulnerabilities in Advanced Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

We analyze the link between nonperforming loans (NPL) and macroeconomic performance using two complementary approaches. First, we investigate the macroeconomic determinants of NPL in panel regressions and confirm that adverse macroeconomic developments are associated with rising NPL. Second, we investigate the feedback between NPL and its macroeconomic determinants in a panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model. The impulse response functions (IRFs) attribute to NPL a central role in the linkages between credit market frictions and macrofinancial vulnerability. They suggest that a sharp increase in NPL triggers long-lived tailwinds that cripple macroeconomic performance from several fronts.

Subject: Credit, Financial institutions, Financial statements, Housing prices, Loans, Money, Nonperforming loans, Prices, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Asset quality, Banks, Business fluctuations, Credit, Financial statements, Global, Higher-than-expected NPL ratio, Housing prices, Loans, Macrofinancial linkages, Modeling NPL, Nonperforming loans, NPL, NPL dynamics, NPL increase, NPL measure, NPL time series, Price, Unemployment, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    27

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2011/161

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2011161

  • ISBN:

    9781455297740

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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