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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the role of monetary policy and macro-prudential regulation in promoting financial stability is under discussion. The old debate concerning whether monetary policy should respond to credit and asset price bubbles was revived, whereas macro-prudential...
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banks and supervisory authorities of all EU member states. This paper describes the design and structure of the new data set …
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banks and supervisory authorities of all EU member states. This paper describes the design and structure of the new data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930199
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the role of monetary policy and macro-prudential regulation in promoting financial stability is under discussion. The old debate concerning whether monetary policy should respond to credit and asset price bubbles was revived, whereas macro-prudential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020791
We study the relationship between banks' size and risk-taking in the context of supranational banking supervision …-big-to-fail effect, we find an inverse relationship between banks' size and non-performing loan growth for a sample of European banks …-up rather than incentives alignment among the supervisors and the banks. …
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This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and … bank interest rates, we likewise find that banks tend to price their loans more in accordance with the market in countries … heavier in the loan market than in the deposit markets, so that banks compensate for their reduction in loan market income by …
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When the Covid-19 crisis struck, banks using internal-rating based (IRB) models quickly recognized the increase in risk … and reduced lending more than banks using a standardized approach. This effect is not driven by borrowers' quality or by … banks in countries with credit booms before the pandemic. The higher risk sensitivity of IRB models does not always result …
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Does society benefit from the delegation of monetary policy to cautious and conservative central bankers? We offer a critical view on the delegation literature and relax seemingly innocuous assumptions about uncertainty and preferences. First, caution improves credibility but does not obviate...
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This paper presents stylised facts about the business cycle of the euro area. The results suggest that the stylised facts for the euro area economy and the US are very similar. The magnitude of the fluctuations in consumption, investment, prices, inflation, interest rate, monetary aggregates...
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This paper investigates the effects of monetary policy on firms' investment behaviour. The analysis relies on a comprehensive database of Belgian firms covering all sectors of economic activity and firms of all sizes. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate a reduced-form investment equation...
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