2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
4. Capital Flow Episodes Shocks, Global Investor Risk and Credit Growth
Authors : Nombulelo Gumata, Eliphas Ndou
Published in: Bank Credit Extension and Real Economic Activity in South Africa
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
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• Show the importance of classifying capital flow episodes, separating between foreign and domestic investor activities
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• Understand the channels of transmission of capital waves and how they impact real economic activity and credit growth
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• Show how changes in global risk shocks impact capital flow surges, sudden stop episodes, credit growth and real activity
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• Demonstrate the significance of economic costs exerted by capital flow surges, sudden stops and capital flight and retrenchments
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• Show costs associated with capital flows driven by domestic and foreign investor behavior.
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• Examine the role of commodity prices and the exchange rate in amplifying credit growth based on the counterfactual scenarios
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• Establish whether capital flow surges and sudden stop shocks lead to the reallocation of sectorial credit shares