Financial Crisis, Economic Recovery and Banking Development in Russia, Ukraine, and Other FSU Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 04/105

Posted: 16 Aug 2004

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Haizhou Huang

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Dalia Marin

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Chenggang Xu

University of Hong Kong

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Date Written: June 2004

Abstract

This paper provides a unified analysis for the onset of the 1998 financial crisis and the strong economic recovery afterward in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. Before the crisis a banking failure arose owing to the coexistence of a lemons credit market and high government borrowing. In a lemons credit market low credit risk firms switched from bank to nonbank finance, including trade credits and barter trade, generating an externality on banks' interest rates. The collapse of the treasury bills market in the financial crisis triggered a change in banks' lending behavior, providing initial conditions for banking development.

Suggested Citation

Huang, Haizhou and Marin, Dalia and Xu, Chenggang, Financial Crisis, Economic Recovery and Banking Development in Russia, Ukraine, and Other FSU Countries (June 2004). IMF Working Paper No. 04/105, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=576747

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