THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC POLICY UNCERTAINTY ON BANK STABILITY

This paper aims to determine the effect of global economic policy uncertainty on the banking system's stability in Asian countries. The dependent variable in the study is measured through the bank's payment risk Zscore. The primary explanatory factor is global economic policy uncertainty, and other control variables include the banking system's characteristics and the national economic environment. Asian banking systems' data are collected from World Bank between 2008 and 2020. Based on the System Generalized Method of Moments, the main results indicate that global economic policy uncertainty is seriously exacerbating the instability of the banking system of Asian countries. The study also shows that the ability to use mobilized capital and the degree of concentration of the system reduces the adverse impact of global economic policy uncertainty on the stability of the banking system in Asian countries.