Showing 1 - 10 of 122
We evaluate the ECB’s monetary policy strategy against the underlying economic structure of the euro area economy, in normal times and in times of severe financial dislocations. We show that in the years preceding the financial crisis that started in 2007 the strategy was successful at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002548
unique Euro area bank lending surveys. Embedding this information within a standard VAR model, we find that: (1) the credit … monetary policy shock on GDP and inflation; (3) for business loans, the impact through the (supply) bank lending channel is …Any empirical analysis of the credit channel faces a key identification challenge: changes in credit supply and demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560375
This paper investigates the effects of monetary policy on firms' investment behaviour. The analysis relies on a comprehensive database of Belgian firms covering all sectors of economic activity and firms of all sizes. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate a reduced-form investment equation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816280
, operates mainly through the credit channel, both the bank lending and the non-financial borrower balance-sheet channel. Our …The Euro area economic activity and banking sector have shown substantial fragility over the last years with remarkable … results suggest that the bank-lending channel has been partly mitigated by the ECB nonstandard monetary policy interventions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686876
-applicant firms that enable us to disentangle effects driven by shocks to the banking system from recession-driven demand shocks that … may vary across lenders. We find strong evidence that credit tightened in the relatively early stages of the crises caused … by the following types of bank financial distress: 1) low equity ratio; 2) low Tier 1 capital ratio; and 3) losses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568195
ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037602
We exploit the 2007-2009 financial crisis to analyze how risk relates to bank business models. Institutions with higher … risk exposure had less capital, larger size, greater reliance on short-term market funding, and aggressive credit growth …. Business models related to significantly reduced bank risk were characterized by a strong deposit base and greater income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367473
macroprudential policy is represented by a convex dependence of bank capital requirements on the quantity of uncollateralized credit …. In our model, producers are financed by both bank debt and equity, and face a mix of systematic and idiosyncratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686763
to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consumption expenditures. We show that …We employ a unique identification strategy linking survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank-level data … the face of a temporary adverse lending supply shock. The results contrast with recent evidence on the real effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011067238
This paper tests cross-sectional differences in the effectiveness of the bank lending channel of monetary policy in … the effects of a tightening on credit supplied. Banks' liquidity is the most significant factor enabling them to attenuate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005344883