Determinants of credit growth and the bank lending channel in Peru: a loan level analysis
BIS Working Papers
No 803
Determinants of credit growth and the bank lending channel in Peru: a loan level analysis
by José Bustamante, Walter Cuba and Rafael Nivin
Monetary and Economic Department
July 2019
JEL classification: D22, D84, E31
Keywords: inflation expectations, firms' survey, new information.
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ISSN 1020-0959 (print)
ISSN 1682-7678 (online)
Determinants of credit growth and the bank lending channel in Peru: a loan level analysis
by José Bustamante, Walter Cuba and Rafael Nivin
Abstract
This paper uses loan-level data from Peru’s credit registry to determine how the role of bankspecific characteristics (i.e. bank size, liquidity, capitalization, funding, revenue, and profitability) may affect the supply of credit in domestic and foreign currency. Also, we analyze how these characteristics affect the banks’ response to monetary policy shocks. Finally, we assess how the link between bank-specific characteristics and credit supply is affected by global financial conditions and commodity price changes. Our results show that well-capitalized, high-liquidity, low-risk, more profitable banks tend to grant more credit, especially in domestic curren
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