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Foreign-Owned Banks and Real Estate Markets in Croatia: A Panel Data Analysis

This paper analyses the role of real estate markets and foreign-owned banks in bank credit growth in Croatia from 1999 to 2008 by applying panel data analysis. This paper gives a more profound explanation of host countries’ variables influencing bank orientation towards housing credit in the home county. We explain the channel through which the foreign-owned banks can facilitate domestic demand for housing and push the housing bubble, motivated by determinants outside the host country. Our results suggest that foreign-owned banks’ orientation to real estate markets increased credit supply to all private sectors in Croatia during the credit boom in 1999– 2008.

Real estate markets, Foreign-owned banks, Bank credit, Housing credit, Credit cycle, Dynamic panel models

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