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Against the backdrop of a high stock of non-performing loans (NPLs) in several European countries, this paper investigates the role of NPLs for lending rates charged for newly granted loans in the euro area. More precisely, it looks for an effect that extends beyond losses caused by that stock...
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Using detailed data of all German banks, we find that banks which have suffered heavy credit losses reduce their … assumption of constant leverage. Weakly capitalized banks grant fewer new loans than other banks. We control for credit demand …
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In the presence of financial frictions, banks' capital position may constrain their ability to provide loans. The banking sector may thus have important feedback effects on the macroeconomy. To shed new light on this issue, we combine two approaches. First, we use microeconomic balance sheet...
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to bank loans, such as financing via equity, debt securities, trade credit and lending from non-banks. We investigate …-bank loans to be substitutes for bank loans with negative responses to a positive loan supply shock while trade credit is a …. Quantitatively, the developments in bank loans and trade credit dominate the response of the overall sum of the external financing …
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-trigger hypothesis of mortgage defaults. In order to analyse the possible credit losses stemming from residential mortgage lending we …This paper presents a framework for estimating losses in the residential real estate mortgage portfolios of German … to 2020 for the whole German banking sector. Our results show that loss rates in the residential mortgage portfolios of …
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of macroprudential instruments addressing mortgage credit. The model compares the introduction of a loan-to-value ratio … results show that instruments work largely as intended and are to different extents suitable to dampen credit booms. Moreover …, there is a trade-off between effectiveness, i.e. the extent to which instruments are able to dampen credit booms, and …
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lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset … exposure that have a higher share of exporting firms in their credit portfolio. We also find that German regions where these …
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This paper explores the impact of low (but) positive and negative market interest rates on euro area banks' net interest margin (NIM) and its components, retail lending and retail deposit rates. Using two proprietary bank-level data sets, I find a positive impact of the level of the short-term...
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rate risk and to credit risk are remunerated, that banks' try to stabilize the mid-term net interest margin with exposure … credit risk …
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We investigate whether banks actively manage their exposure to interest rate risk in the short run. Using bank-level data of German banks for the period 2011Q4- 2017Q2, we find evidence that banks actively manage their interest rate risk exposure in their banking books: They take account of...
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