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Do commodity price shocks weaken the financial sector?

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  • Tidiane Kinda
  • Montfort Mlachila
  • Rasmane Ouedraogo

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This paper investigates the impact of commodity price shocks on financial sector fragility. Using a large sample of 71 commodity exporters among emerging and developing economies, it shows that negative shocks to commodity prices tend to weaken the financial sector, with larger shocks having more pronounced impacts. More specifically, negative commodity price shocks are associated with higher non‐performing loans, bank costs and banking crises, while they reduce bank profits, liquidity and provisions to non‐performing loans. These adverse effects tend to occur in countries with poor quality of governance, weak fiscal space, as well as those that do not have a sovereign wealth fund, do not implement macroprudential policies and do not have a diversified export base. These findings are robust to a battery of robustness checks.

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  • Tidiane Kinda & Montfort Mlachila & Rasmane Ouedraogo, 2018. "Do commodity price shocks weaken the financial sector?," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(11), pages 3001-3044, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:worlde:v:41:y:2018:i:11:p:3001-3044
    DOI: 10.1111/twec.12667
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    1. Eberhardt, Markus & Presbitero, Andrea F., 2021. "Commodity prices and banking crises," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
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    9. Lin, Boqiang & Xu, Bin, 2019. "How to effectively stabilize China's commodity price fluctuations?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).

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