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The economic policy response to COVID-19 lockdowns included a variety of measures. Their effects on non-financial firms, however, remain unclear. To shed light on the effect of transfers, we investigate the effect of German emergency aid transfers (November-December aid), a program designed for...
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This paper re-visits the state of decentralised banking in Germany, Spain and the UK. The cross-country comparison we conducted has identified Germany as having the most decentralised banking system, followed by Spain and the UK, as expected. The development of regional and double-purpose banks,...
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market financing, debt or equity financing - seems to be particularly harmful or beneficial for growth. …
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negatively related to credit spreads. Particularly during the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the subsequent European debt crisis …
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The Basel credit-to-GDP gap is the single most popular measure of excessive credit growth and the financial cycle in general. It is based, however, on a purely statistical understanding of excessiveness: Growth is excessive if the credit-to-GDP ratio (i.e. the ratio of credit to nominal GDP) is...
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Broker-dealer leverage has recently proven to be strongly procyclical, exhibiting impressive explanatory power for a … balance-sheet indicators for asset pricing. In particular, leverage shows a procyclical behavior with a positive price of risk …. Moreover, high leverage coincides with high asset prices, thereby forecasting lower future returns. …
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Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan...
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Using a unique and comprehensive data set on the two largest economies of the Eurozone - France and Germany - this paper first proceeds to a computation of the Gordy formula relaxing the ad hoc sizedependent constraints of the Basel formulas. Our study contributes to Article 501 of the Capital...
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