scholarly journals Bank Ownership and Credit Cycle: The Lower Sensitivity of Public Bank Lending to the Business Cycle

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaut Duprey
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Lower Sensitivity ◽  
Bank Ownership ◽  
Credit Cycle ◽  
The Business Cycle

scholarly journals TRI-CYCLES ANALYSIS ON BANK PERFORMANCE: PANEL VAR APPROACH

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denny Irawan ◽  
Febrio Kacaribu
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Bank Performance ◽  
Panel Var ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Credit Cycle ◽  
The Business Cycle

The previous financial crisis has revealed the importance of risk in the financial and business cycle within the economy. This paper examines relationship among three cycles in the economy, namely (i) business cycle macro risk, (ii) credit cycle and (iii) risk cycle, and their impacts toward individual bank performance. We examine the responses of individual bank credit cycle and risk cycle toward a shock in business cycle macro risk and its consequence to the bank performance. We use Indonesian data for period of 2005q1 to 2014q4. We use unbalanced panel data of individual banks’ balance sheet with Panel Vector Autoregressive approach based on GMM style estimation by implementing PVAR package developed by Abrigo and Love (2015). The result shows dynamic relationship between business cycle macro risk and financial risk cycles. The study also observes prominent role of risk cycles in driving bank performance. We also show the existence of financial accelerator phenomenon in Indonesian banking system, in which financial cycles precede the business cycle macro risk.

Is commercial bank lending in South Africa procyclical?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-226
Author(s):  
Foluso Abioye Akinsola ◽  
Sylvanus Ikhide
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
South African ◽  
Commercial Bank ◽  
Bank Lending ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the relationship between commercial bank lending and business cycle in South Africa. This paper attempts to know whether commercial bank lending in South Africa is procyclical.Design/methodology/approachThe model assumed that the lending behaviour is related to the business cycle. In this study, vector error correction model (VECM) is used to capture the relationship between bank lending and business cycle to accurately elicit the macroeconomic long-run relationship between business cycle and bank lending, as some banks might slow down bank lending due to some idiosyncratic factors that are not related to the downturn in the economy. This paper uses data from South African Reserve Bank for the period of 1990-2015 using VECM to understand the extent to which business cycle fluctuation can affect credit crunch in the financial system. The Johansen cointegration approach is used to ascertain whether there is indeed a long-run co-movement between credit growth and business cycle.FindingsResults from the VECM show that there are significant linkages among the variables, especially between credit to gross domestic product (GDP) and business cycle. The influence of business cycle is seen vividly after a period of four to five years, where business cycle explains 20 per cent of the variation in the credit to GDP. South African banks tend to change their lending behaviour during upturns and downturns. This result further confirms the assertion in theory that credit follows business cycle and can amplify credit crunch. The result shows that in the long run, fluctuations in the business cycle can influence the credit growth in South Africa.Research limitations/implicationsThe impulse analysis result shows that the impact of business cycle shock is very persistent and lasting. This also demonstrates that the shocks to the business cycle result have a persistent and long-lasting impact on credit. This study finds that commercial bank lending in South Africa is procyclical. It is suggested that the South African economy needs forward-looking policies that will mitigate the flow of credit to the real sector and at the same time ensure financial stability.Originality/valueMost research papers rarely distinguish between the demand side and supply side of credit procyclicality. This report is presented to develop an econometric model that will examine demand side procyclicality. This study adopts more realistic and novel methods that will help in explaining the relationship between bank lending and business cycle in South Africa, especially after the global financial crisis. This report is presented with a concise and detailed analysis and interpretation.

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