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on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs …
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Using a unique and comprehensive data set on the two largest economies of the Eurozone - France and Germany - this … consistency of own funds requirements with the riskiness of SME. In both the French and the German sample, results suggest that … the relative differences between the capital requirements for large corporates and those for SME (in other words the …
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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 examines how Basel III capital reforms affected bank lending in Ger- many. We focus on the increase of minimum risk-based capital requirements and the introduction of the leverage ratio. The announcement of stricter risk-based capital regulation significantly affected low capitalized...
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By combining the approaches of Gertler and Karadi (2011) and Bernanke et al. (1999), I develop a DSGE model with leverage constraints both in the banking and in the non-financial firm sector. I calibrate this "full model" to US data. In a world with only a monetary policy and a productivity...
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). Key contributions are the use of a unique data set of SME lending by over 400 German banks and relating systematic risk to … particularly rich and well developed credit market for SMEs in Germany. We estimate asset correlations as the key measure of … granted in Basel II for SMEs relative to large firms. For SME loans in the corporate portfolio of the Internal Ratings …
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In this paper, we study the complementarity between business training and access to financial capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of participants are offered loans immediately after training...
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finance and firm activity in Germany in more detail. In particular, we explore a novel data set that matches a full sample of …
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