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that the tightening of liquidity regulation caused banks to shrink their balance sheets, nor reduce the amount of lending … find that banks adjusted the composition of both assets and liabilities, increasing the share of high-quality liquid assets …
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-2007 period, UK-regulated banks reduced lending in response to tighter capital requirements. But non UK-regulated banks (resident … supply by regulated banks, and (ii) substitute sources of credit should not fully offset changes in credit supply by affected … banks. This paper examines micro evidence — lacking to date — on both questions, using a unique data set. In the United …
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type of lending. Following a tightening of capital regulation, branches of multinational banks reduce interbank lending … growth by 6 percentage points more relative to subsidiaries of the same banking group. Lending to non-banks does not exhibit … structure of banks' foreign affiliates. Our analysis compares the response of foreign banks' branches versus subsidiaries in the …
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We investigate the effect of house prices on household borrowing using administrative mortgage data from the United Kingdom and a new empirical approach. The data contain household-level information on house prices and borrowing in a panel of homeowners, who refinance at regular and...
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points in capital requirements leads to a 5.4% decline in individual loan size by bank. Loans issued by competing banks rise …
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In the workhorse model of international real business cycles, financial integration exacerbates the cycle asymmetry created by country-specific supply shocks. The prediction is identical in response to purely common shocks in the same model augmented with simple country heterogeneity (eg, where...
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This paper estimates the effect of changes in capital requirements applied to all UK-resident banks on lending by … the aggregate bank capital requirement during an economic upswing is associated with a reduction of lending, with the … effect larger for lending to corporates than for that to households. The impact on GDP growth is statistically insignificant …
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Macroprudential regulators worldwide have introduced regulations to limit household leverage in light of existing evidence which suggests that high leverage is associated with household distress during crisis. We analyse the distributional effects of such a macroprudential policy on mortgage and...
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(ECL) on the cyclicality of loan write-off losses, loan loss provisions (LLPs) and capital ratios of banks, relative to the … smooths the impact of credit losses on profits and capital resources, reducing the procyclicality of capital and leverage … probabilities of defaults (PDs) between booms and busts cause sharp increases in LLPs in deep downturns, as seen for US banks during …
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This paper develops a DSGE model in which banks use short-term deposits to provide firms with long-term credit. The …
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