01855cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF005689 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451872026 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ong, Li. Foreign Banks in the CESE Countries : In for a Penny, in for a Pound? / Li Ong, Andrea Maechler. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009. 1 online resource (64 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The aim of this paper is to construct a comprehensive and consistent dataset to analyze the potential risks from foreign bank lending, for both the creditor and borrower countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (CESE). We develop a picture of bank claims on 13 CESE countries by combining credit statistics from several sources. Our constructed data suggest that some of these host countries have become more at risk from a sudden withdrawal of short-term external funding, while home countries have significant aggregate exposures to the region. Overall, we find that data on banking activity remain largely inadequate for surveillance and policymaking purposes, and that a concerted effort to improve data collection is needed at the international level. Mode of access: Internet Maechler, Andrea. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/054 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2009/054/001.2009.issue-054-en.xml IMF e-Library