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Commodity Price Shocks and Financial Sector Fragility
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Mr. Tidiane Kinda
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Mr. Montfort Mlachila
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Rasmané Ouedraogo null

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Series:
IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2016: Issue 012
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Feb 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498328722.001
ISBN:
9781498328722
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
48
Keywords:
WP; price shock; return on equity; banking crisis; real interest rate; Commodity price shocks; financial sector fragility; commodity exporter; commodity exports price shock; commodity producer; B. price shock; commodity subcategory; commodity price indices; terms of trade; commodity price shocks increase; commodity price downturn; oil price shock; long-lasting adverse commodity price shock; Nonperforming loans; Financial sector; Commodity prices; Banking crises; Sub-Saharan Africa; Asia and Pacific; Middle East; North Africa; oil price collapse; shocks measure; using price; Caribbean
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This paper investigates the impact of commodity price shocks on financial sector fragility. Using a large sample of 71 commodity exporters among emerging and developing economies, it shows that negative shocks to commodity prices tend to weaken the financial sector, with larger shocks having more pronounced impacts. More specifically, negative commodity price shocks are associated with higher non-performing loans, bank costs and banking crises, while they reduce bank profits, liquidity, and provisions to nonperforming loans. These adverse effects tend to occur in countries with poor quality of governance, weak fiscal space, as well as those that do not have a sovereign wealth fund, do not implement macro-prudential policies and do not have a diversified export base. These findings are robust to a battery of robustness checks.
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