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The Impact of Foreign Banks on Monetary Policy Transmission During the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009: Evidence from Korea
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The Impact of Foreign Banks on Monetary Policy Transmission During the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009: Evidence from Korea

Ji Wu, Hosung Lim and Bang Nam Jeon
Emerging markets finance & trade, v 52(7), pp 1574-1586
01 Jan 2016
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http://papers.bok.or.kr/RePEc_attach/wpaper/english/wp-2014-8.pdfView

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Business Business & Economics Economics International Relations Social Sciences
This article examines the impact of foreign banks on the monetary policy transmission mechanism in the Korean economy during the period from 2000 to 2012, with a specific focus on the lending behavior of banks with different types of ownership. Using bank-level panel data of the banking system in Korea, we present consistent evidence on the buffering impact that the foreign banks, especially foreign bank branches including US bank branches, on the effectiveness of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in Korea from the bank-lending channel perspective during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.

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