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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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restrictive bank loan supply shock has a strong and persistent negative impact on real GDP and the GDP deflator. This result comes … "spare tire" for the reduction in bank loans. We show that this result can be rationalized by a recently revived view of … the act of lending. Consequently, our findings indicate that a substitution of bank loans by other sources of financing …
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This paper uses matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro to show that exchange rate … depreciations lead to increased bank loan supply of large banks with significant net foreign asset exposure. This increase in … lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset …
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Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … for public finances. Regimes for the restructuring and resolution of banks, financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops …, seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and to increase the costs of leverage. This …
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The US credit boom has been identified as one of the causes of the global financial crisis and the resulting debt … overhang is seen as the primary reason for the weak economic recovery. Most of the existing literature links the credit boom to … non-financial private sector had been originated by shadow banks. Consequently, dampening credit creation by the …
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We show that credit supply shocks have a strong impact on firm-level as well as aggregate investment by applying the … methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the … growth rate of individual loans in our dataset is decomposed into bank, firm, industry and common shocks. Adverse bank shocks …
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equilibrium elasticity of bank loan supply with respect to bank capital. Although the targeted elasticity is remarkably different …
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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 … using a new method, the construction of tailored hypothetical bank competitors. …
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minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …
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This paper shows that the supply side of credit is a major factor for the phenomenonof hampered interest rate pass …
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