Bank Credit Extension and Real Economic Activity in South Africa

Chapter 1) Introduction.- Chapter 2)The inverse transmission of positive global liquidity shocks into the South African economy.- Chapter 3) The impact of capital flows on credit extension: the counterfactual approach.- Chapter 4) Capital flow episode shocks, global risk and credit growth.- Chapter 5) Do bank and non-bank capital flows induce sectorial reallocation of credit away from the household sector?.- Chapter 6) Do components of capital flows induce sectorial reallocation of credit away from companies?.- Chapter 7) Stock returns, volatility and bust effects on economic growth.- Chapter 8) The interaction between credit conditions, monetary policy and economic activity.- Chapter 9) Credit conditions and the amplification of exchange rate depreciation and other unexpected macroeconomic shocks.- Chapter 10) What does the adjustment of the lending-deposit rate spread tell us about collusive behaviour pricing, transaction costs and adverse customer reaction?.- Chapter 11) Adverse credit supply shocks and weak economic growth.- Chapter 12) Credit supply shocks and real economic activity.- Chapter 13) Credit growth threshold and the nonlinear transmission of credit shocks.- Chapter 14) Credit regimes and the balance sheet effects.- Chapter 15) The banking risk-taking channel of monetary policy in South Africa.- Chapter 16) Financial regulation policy uncertainty and the sluggish recovery in credit growth.- Chapter 17) Excess capital adequacy and liquid asset holdings and credit.- Chapter 18) Credit loss provisions as a macro-prudential tool.- Chapter 19) The National Credit Act, monetary policy and credit growth.- Chapter 20) Loan-to-value ratios, contractionary monetary policy and inflation expectations.- Chapter 21) Repayment-to-income and loan-to-value ratios shocks on the housing market.... Mehr