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Title: International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycles

Author(s): Yusuf Soner Baskaya, Julian di Giovanni, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Mehmet Fatih Ulu

Publication Date: February 2017

Keyword(s): Bank credit, Capital Flows, Firm Heterogeneity, Risk premium and VIX

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Finance and Monetary Economics and Fluctuations

Abstract: We study the transmission of global financial uncertainty to an emerging market economy, Turkey, using data on the universe of corporate loan transactions over 2003{2013. International arbitrage implies that a decline in global uncertainty reduces country risk, which narrows the deviation from uncovered interest parity, and pushes capital flows into Turkey, allowing domestic banks to lend to firms at lower interest rates. This leads to a domestic credit expansion since local currency borrowing becomes cheaper. Our estimates explain 43% of observed credit growth, where bank heterogeneity in access to international markets explains 94% of this aggregate impact. We show that collateral-based borrowing constraints do not relax during capital flow surges, while borrowing becomes cheaper for all firms on average. We rule out various alternative mechanisms such as exchange rate appreciation driven balance-sheet effects. Our results highlight a new international spillover mechanism, which we call the “interest rate channel."

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Baskaya, Y, di Giovanni, J, Kalemli-Ozcan, S and Ulu, M. 2017. 'International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycles'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://www.cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=11839