02198cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF014359 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475517729 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Cerutti, Eugenio. Global Liquidity and Drivers of Cross-Border Bank Flows / Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens, Lev Ratnovski. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014. 1 online resource (33 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 This paper provides a definition of global liquidity consistent with its meaning as the 'ease of financing' in international financial markets. Using a longer time series and broader sample of countries than in previous studies, it identifies global factors driving cross-border bank flows, alongside country-specific factors. It confirms the explanatory power of US financial conditions, with flows decreasing in market volatility (VIX) and term premia, and increasing in bank leverage, growth in domestic credit and M2. A new finding is that similar variables for other systemic countries - the UK and the Euro Area - are also important, sometimes even more so, consistent with the dominant role of European banks in cross-border banking. Furthermore, recipient country characteristics are found to affect not only the level of country-specific flows, but also the cyclical impact of global liquidity, with sensitivities of flows to banks decreasing with stronger macroeconomic frameworks and better bank regulation, but less so for flows to non-financial firms. Mode of access: Internet Claessens, Stijn. Ratnovski, Lev. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/069 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2014/069/001.2014.issue-069-en.xml IMF e-Library