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On Remittances, Foreign Currency Exposure and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Nepal
In this paper, we investigate whether foreign currency accounts help overcome credit constraints in developing countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign currency deposits on commercial bank balance sheets. In this data set we find that: (i) Banks hedge their FX exposure by investing in FX assets. (ii) Banks also hedge indirectly via their sectoral lending composition: Banks with a large share of FX deposits primarily lend to firms in traded-goods sectors. They lend only little to the non-traded sectors, as well as deprived sectors of the economy that have been targeted by various support programs. While the direct impact of FX accounts on relaxing credit constraints thus appears small, and biased towards specific sectors, there is also a substantial indirect effect via the additional creation of domestic deposits that benefits all sectors of the economy.
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Englisch
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Banking, credit and the cycle ; No. E03-V3
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Foreign Exchange
Remittances
Central Banks and Their Policies
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Steinkamp, Sven
Maskay, Nephil
Westermann, Frank
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ
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- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Steinkamp, Sven
- Maskay, Nephil
- Westermann, Frank
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- 2015
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