02030cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF006203 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451961614 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Sanya, Sarah. Post-Crisis Bank Behavior : Lessons From Mercosur / Sarah Sanya, Montfort Mlachila. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010. 1 online resource (26 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 Did the occurrence of systemic banking crises in the 1990s and 2000s significantly alter the behavior of banks in the Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the Mercosur region. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to apply the convergence methodology-which is common in the growth literature-to post-crisis bank behavior. Using a panel dataset of commercial banks during the period 1990-2006, we analyze the impact of crises on four sets of financial indicators of bank behavior-profitability, maturity preference, credit supply, and risk. The paper finds that most indicators of bank behavior, such as profitability, in fact revert to previous or more normal levels. However, a key finding of the paper is that private sector intermediation is significantly reduced for prolonged periods of time and that high levels excess liquidity persist well after the crisis. Mode of access: Internet Mlachila, Montfort. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/001 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2010/001/001.2010.issue-001-en.xml IMF e-Library