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reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks with lower capital or liquidity ratios. Moreover, responding to …
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crisis, and of the provision of central bank liquidity during the crisis. Exploiting the euro area institutional setting for … helped to soften lending conditions that were tightened because of bank capital and liquidity constraints, especially for … business loans. Importantly, this softening effect is stronger for banks that borrow more long-term liquidity from the …
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The Euro area economic activity and banking sector have shown substantial fragility over the last years with remarkable country heterogeneity. Using detailed data on lending conditions and standards, we analyse how financial fragility has affected the transmission mechanism of the single Euro...
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Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short-term interest rates soften standards, for household and corporate loans. This softening – especially for mortgages – is amplified by securitization activity, weak supervision...
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Any empirical analysis of the credit channel faces a key identification challenge: changes in credit supply and demand are difficult to disentangle. To address this issue, we use the detailed answers from the US and the confidential and unique Euro area bank lending surveys. Embedding this...
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