Credit growth has had significant impact on EM growth, IMF paper says

IMF paper explores relationship in 31 emerging markets over past decade

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Credit expansion and the composition of credit growth has had a "significant" impact on economic growth in emerging markets in the past decade, a working paper published by the International Monetary Fund has found.

Credit expansion in emerging markets: propeller of growth? by Mercedes Garcia-Escribano and Fei Han use cross-country panel regressions to look at the effect of both factors on real GDP on a sample of 31 countries.

"The results show that corporate credit shocks influence GDP growth

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