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Tweet[IWS] ADB: CAN LOW INTEREST RATES BE HARMFUL?: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BANK RISK-TAKING CHANNEL IN ASIA [online 20 February 2014]
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Description
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ADB Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration
No. 123 | January 2014
CAN LOW INTEREST RATES BE HARMFUL?: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BANK RISK-TAKING CHANNEL IN ASIA [online 20 February 2014]
by Ramayandi, Arief; Rawat, Umang; Tang, Hsiao Chink
or
http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/pub/2014/reiwp-123-can-low-interest-rates-harmful.pdf
[full-text, 52 pages]
Events surrounding the global financial crisis have brought to light the potential role of monetary policy in precipitating the crisis. Numerous studies on advanced economies have documented a significant negative relationship between interest rates and bank risk-taking. This paper also finds the presence of the risk-taking channel based on a panel of publicly listed bank data in Asia. Using both annual and quarterly data, "too low" interest rates are found to lead to an increase in bank risk-taking.
Contents
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Literature: Theory and Evidence
• Model Specification
• Data and Estimation Issues
• Results
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix
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