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ORCID

Renata Karkowska 0000-0002-6335-2973

Keywords

global liquidity; emerging countries; credit supply; financial instability

Abstract

The paper explores the concept of global liquidity and its determinants, focusing on the banking system in advanced and emerging markets. We explore the implications of the interaction between liquidity and its local, global and financial markets determinants. We also analyze the global liquidity channels, i.e. whether foreign banks play a significant role in the country’s financial system. The study focuses on the investigation of banks’ liquidity determinants in 42 countries (advanced and emerging/developing countries) over the 2000–2011 period. The results show the significance of the differences in global liquidity depending on the country’s level of development. We find support to the conjecture that globalization and global banks’ leverage may convey some useful information on global liquidity. We also present an important observation that banks’ lending in advanced countries is shielded from the monetary policy because of their ability to freely access alternative sources of funds.

First Page

152

Last Page

170

Page Count

19

Received Date

24 March 2015

Revised Date

28 April 2015

Accept Date

5 May 2015

Online Available Date

18 May 2015

DOI

10.7172/2353-6845.jbfe.2015.1.7

JEL Code

E5; E44; G20; F3

Publisher

University of Warsaw

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