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What determines the size of bank loans in industrialized countries? The role of government debt

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Riccardo De Bonis () (Bank of Italy)
Massimiliano Stacchini () (Bank of Italy)
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Given the importance of banking intermediation, we investigate the determinants of the size of bank loans in 18 OECD countries in the period 1981-1997. The aim of the paper is to show that the ratio of government debt to GDP has a negative effect on the level of bank credit. Second, countries with a German legal origin have higher ratios of loans to GDP than common law countries. Our results are robust to including such variables in the regressions as per capita GDP, stock market capitalization, the banking reserve requirement, the level of inflation and its volatility, openness to trade and the use of different econometric methods.

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Keywords: bank loans; government debt; financial repression; legal origin of finance;

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G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data

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