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dynamics nullify the strong local (bank-level) lending channel of securitization on credit quantity for firms with multiple … banking relationships. Credit terms however become softer, but there are no real effects. Securitization implies a credit …While banks may change their credit supply due to bank balance-sheet shocks (the local lending channel), firms can …
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To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and … resultant credit restriction by turning to other banks. Importantly the bank-lending channel is notably stronger when we account …
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compensation for borrowers' credit risk under absence of arbitrage opportunities and I use these rates as a benchmark to interpret …
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This paper finds strong empirical support of a positive, although quite lagged, relationship between rapid credit … growth and loan losses. Moreover, it contains empirical evidence of more lenient credit terms during boom periods, both in … shareholders regarding the incentives of the former to engage in too expansionary credit policies during lending booms. The paper …
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This paper develops a flexible and computationally efficient model to estimate the credit loss distribution of the … allowed to depend on macroeconomic conditions as well as on unobservable credit risk factors, which can capture contagion …. We apply our model to the Spanish credit market, where we find that sectorial default frequencies are affected by a …
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firms with different access to credit, finding that credit constraints may reverse the countercyclicality of R&D, even if it … countercyclical and, unlike R&D investment, credit constraints seem not to affect their cyclical behaviour. Investments in other …
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Policy discussions on the recent financial crisis feature widespread calls to address the pro-cyclical effects of regulation. The main concern is that the new risk-sensitive bank capital regulation (Basel II) may amplify business cycle fluctuations. This paper compares the leading alternative...
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This paper investigates the size distribution of the whole population of Spanish commercial, savings and cooperative banks from a dynamic perspective over the 1970 2006 period. To investigate the evolution of the size distribution, we determine whether the data satisfies the Law of Proportionate...
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This paper uses panel data on banks, for the period 1991-98, to test the existence of a banklending channel in the Spanish economy. In order to distinguish between loan demand and supply movements, several exercises are performed. First, we analyse the differential responses, to monetary policy...
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This paper offers a comprehensive comparison of the structure of banking and financial markets in the euro area. Based on this, several hypotheses about the role of banks in monetary policy transmission are developed. Many of the predictions that have been proposed for the U.S. are deemed...
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