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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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). 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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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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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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We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank’s affiliates located abroad are affected by funding difficulties in view of the financial crisis. For this, we consider transaction-induced changes in long-term lending to the private sector of 40 countries by the affiliates of...
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This paper provides new evidence that taxes affect capital structure choice, using a unique and comprehensive panel data set which covers 86,173 German non-financial firms over the years 1973–2008. Following the Graham methodology to simulate marginal tax rates, we find a statistically and...
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Using a unique data set on German banks' sector specific loan exposures to the real economy and the corresponding write-offs and write-downs, we examine the impact of loan portfolio sector concentration on credit risk. By controlling for common risk factors, we separate the bank-specific...
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