Rapid credit growth in Central and Eastern Europe :
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[Book]
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endless boom or early warning?
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Charles Enoch and İnci Ötker-Robe.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York
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Palgrave Macmillan/International Monetary Fund
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(xix, 373 pages) : illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Procyclicality of Financial Systems in Asia.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Credit growth in Central and Eastern Europe / Charles Enoch --;Causes and nature of the rapid growth of bank credit in the Central, Eastern and South-eastern European countries / Calin Arcalean [and others] --;Using fundamentals to identify episodes of "excessive" credit growth in Central and Eastern Europe / Frédric Boissay, Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez, and Tomasz Koźluk --;Fast credit expansion in Central and Eastern Europe: catching-up, sustainable financial deepening, or bubble? / Peter Backé, Balázs Égert, and Tina Zumer --;Analysis of and policy responses to rapid credit growth / Paul Hilbers, İnci Ötker-Robe, and Ceyla Pazarbasioǧlu --;Rapid credit growth: the role of supervisors / Mats Josefsson --;Credit growth slowdown: the experience of Bulgaria / Veselka Petkova and Stoyan Manolov --;Croatian experience with rapid credit growth / Maroje Lang --;Estonia's experience with rapid credit growth / Raoul Lättemäe --;Latvia's experience with rapid credit growth / Uldis Rutkaste --;Assessment of credit growth in Lithuania / Tomas Ramanauskas --;Poland's experiences with rapid credit growth: the 1996-97 episode / Piotr Szpunar --;Fast credit growth and policy response: the case of Romania / Cristian Popa --;Slovakia: credit growth in the household sector and response to the related risks / Marek Ličák --;Too much of a good thing? Credit booms in transition economies: the cases of Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine / Christoph Duenwald, Nikolay Gueorguiev, and Andrea Schaechter --;Role of housing markets and foreign-owned banks in the credit expansion in Central and Eastern Europe / Dubravko Mihaljek --;Regional dimensions of dealing with rapid credit growth: perspectives from Greece (1998-2005) / Nicos Kamberoglou and Nikolaos Stavrianou --;Debt growth: factors, institutional issues and implications: the Portuguese case / Nuno Ribeiro --;Growth of private sector debt in Spain: causes and consequences / Carmen Martinez-Carrascal --;Cross-border supervisory cooperation / Karin Zartl --;Role of cross-border supervisory coordination when dealing with rapid credit growth in emerging countries: home country perspective / Linda van Goor --;Home and host supervisors' relations: a host supervisor's perspective / Piotr Bednarski and Dariusz Starnowski --;Lessons from country experiences with rapid credit growth, and policy implications / Charles Enoch and İnci Ötker-Robe.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book represents the latest developments and policy debate on the rapid growth of banking sector credit to the private sector, which continues to occupy the minds of academics and policymakers alike in many Central and Eastern European countries. The contributions discuss ways to assess and respond to excessive credit growth.