Arbeitspapier

Evergreening in the Euro Area: Facts and explanation

Since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2007/8, new lending in the Euro-Area has slowed sharply and the old loans experienced "evergreening," i.e. bad loans have been rolled over rather than being liquidated. Even though ameliorating evergreening is key to promote lending for new investment projects and growth, no systematic evergreening measures exist. In this paper, we propose a new cross-country evergreening index and develop a model to explain why evergreening may reflect the incentives of regulators to forebear. Our evergreening index is based on a survey we designed, and was administered by the ifo institute to about 1,000 experts in over 80 countries. We bring the model to the data using a heteroscedastic probit model and find that evergreening is higher in: (i) Euro-Area countries than in the rest of the world; (ii) in countries facing bank distress; and (iii) is highest in countries which experience banking distress and are members of the Euro Area. These results are consistent with our theoretical model.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 113

Classification
Wirtschaft
International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
International Institutional Arrangements
Central Banks and Their Policies
Subject
Evergreening
Central bank credit
Survey data

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Steinkamp, Sven
Tornell, Aaron
Westermann, Frank
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Osnabrück University, Institute of Empirical Economic Research
(where)
Osnabrück
(when)
2018

Handle
Last update
10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET

Data provider

This object is provided by:
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft. If you have any questions about the object, please contact the data provider.

Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Steinkamp, Sven
  • Tornell, Aaron
  • Westermann, Frank
  • Osnabrück University, Institute of Empirical Economic Research

Time of origin

  • 2018

Other Objects (12)