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Does IDA Engage in Defensive Lending ? / Geginat, Carolin
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Geginat, Carolin
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access to Finance.
- Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress.
- Banks and Banking Reform.
- Creditors.
- Debt.
- Debt issues.
- Debt Markets.
- Debts.
- Disbursements.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- External debt.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- International Bank.
- International Development.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Non-performing loans.
- Repayments.
- Local Subjects:
- Access to Finance.
- Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress.
- Banks and Banking Reform.
- Creditors.
- Debt.
- Debt issues.
- Debt Markets.
- Debts.
- Disbursements.
- Economic Theory and Research.
- External debt.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- International Bank.
- International Development.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Non-performing loans.
- Repayments.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2007
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Multilateral development banks are frequently accused of "defensive lending," the practice of extending new loans purely in order to ensure that existing loans are repaid. This paper empirically examine this hypothesis using data on lending by and repayments to the International Development Association (IDA), which is the largest provider of concessional development loans to low-income countries. The authors argue that key institutional features of IDA both (i) potentially create incentives for defensive lending, and (ii) enable particularly sharp tests of the defensive lending hypothesis. The authors find that there is a surprisingly robust partial correlation between disbursements on new IDA loans and repayments on existing loans. However, a closer look at the evidence suggests that defensive lending is unlikely to be a major explanation for this partial correlation.
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