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The role of bank capital as a propagation channel of shocks is strongly pronounced in recent macroeconomic models. In this paper, we show how the evolution of bank capital depends on the share of non-state-contingent assets in banks’ balance sheets and present the consequences for...
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This paper compares the consequences of equity injections into banks with purchases of corporate and government bonds in a financial crisis situation using a New Keynesian model in which non-financial firms predominantly take non-market-based debt from banks instead of issuing securities. Our...
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minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …
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Activities of international banks have been at the core of discussions on the causes and effects of the international financial crisis. Yet, we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through international banks, including the reasons for...
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stronger in the sovereign debt crisis. Moreover, the interbank market – unlike other credit markets – allows to exploit the … price dispersion from different lenders on identical credit contracts, i.e. overnight uncollateralized loans in the same …
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bank credit. We find that banks with strong balance sheets were better able to maintain lending during the crisis. In … credit more than other banks. However, higher levels of better-quality capital mitigated this effect. Our results suggest … that strong bank balance sheets are key for the recovery of credit following crises, and provide support for regulatory …
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credit demand-side factors. The public mandate is set by local governments and stipulates a deviation from strict profit … percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks …
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This paper sheds light on the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on bank lending. Using data on German banks for 2014-2016, I show that QE encourages banks to rebalance from securities to loans. For identification, I use bond redemptions as exogenous variation in banks' need to rebalance their...
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In this paper, we argue that the ECB’s unconventional monetary policy announcements have generated significant spillover effects in Russia and Eastern Europe. The hypothesis is tested using OLS estimations of event-based regressions on monetary policy event dummies and seven financial...
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We assess the effects of financial shocks on inflation, and to what extent financial shocks can account for the "missing disinflation" during the Great Recession. We apply a vector autoregressive model to US data and identify financial shocks through sign restrictions. Our main finding is that...
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