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Banking stability and the financial cycle: the Spanish experience
Author(s) -
Ana LozanoVivas,
Flores Martínez Alba
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cuadernos económicos de ice
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2340-9037
pISSN - 0210-2633
DOI - 10.32796/cice.2016.92.6133
Subject(s) - financial stability , business , financial system , stability (learning theory) , finance , economics , computer science , machine learning
espanolEn el presente articulo se definen las caracteristicas del ciclo financiero en Espana durante el periodo 1995-2016 y, ademas, se analiza hasta que punto la estabilidad del Sistema Bancario atenua o exacerba el ciclo financiero. Los resultados obtenidos en estos dos analisis empiricos ponen de relieve que el ciclo financiero en Espana se define con precision por la relacion credito/PIB, el credito al sector privado no financiero y los precios de los inmuebles residenciales y que la brecha credito/PIB, respecto a su tendencia a largo, representa un buen indicador adelantado de la crisis bancaria en Espana. Por otra parte, los resultados indican que una desviacion exogena del valor real respecto al valor potencial del ratio provisiones sobre prestamos totales ayuda a suavizar el ciclo. Este ultimo resultado parece indicar que la regulacion espanola de las «provisiones dinamicas» puede ser considerada como una buena herramienta macroprudencial para combatir la prociclicidad del sistema financiero. EnglishThis paper defines the special characteristics of the financial cycle in Spain during the period 1995-2016 and investigates to what extent the stability of the banking system attenuates or exacerbates the financial cycle. The findings of these two empirical analyses highlight that the financial cycle in Spain is accurately defined by the credit-to-GDP ratio, credit-to-private non-financial sector and residential property prices. Moreover, the credit-to-GDP gap represents a good early warning indicator of the banking crisis in Spain. Finally, an exogenous deviation of actual loan loss provisions-to-total loans ratio from its potential value leads to smoothing of the cycle. Thus, the Spanish dynamic provisions regulation seems to be a good instrument to use as a macroprudential tool to deal with the pro-cyclicality of the financial system.

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