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Bank ratings: what determines their quality?
Hau, Harald; Langfield, Sam; Marqués-Ibáñez, David - 2012
This paper examines the quality of credit ratings assigned to banks in Europe and the United States by the three largest rating agencies over the past two decades. We interpret credit ratings as relative assessments of creditworthiness, and define a new ordinal metric of rating error based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605529
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Bank Ratings : What Determines Their Quality?
Hau, Harald - 2012
This paper examines the quality of credit ratings assigned to banks in Europe and the United States by the three largest rating agencies over the past two decades. We interpret credit ratings as relative assessments of creditworthiness, and define a new ordinal metric of rating error based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099611
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Markets, Banks, and Shadow Banks
Martinez-Miera, David - 2019
We analyze the effect of bank capital requirements on the structure and risk of a financial system where markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893588
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Banks, Shadow Banking, and Fragility
Luck, Stephan - 2014
This paper studies a banking model of maturity transformation in which regulatory arbitrage induces the coexistence of regulated commercial banks and unregulated shadow banks. We derive three main results: First, the relative size of the shadow banking sector determines the stability of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049188
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The Real Effects of FinTech Lending on SMEs : Evidence from Loan Applications
Eca, Afonso; Ferreira, Miguel A.; Prado, Melissa Porras; … - 2022
businesses who already have access to bank credit. Firms use FinTech to obtain long-term unsecured loans and reduce their … increase leverage and substitute long-term bank debt with FinTech debt. Our findings suggest that FinTech allows firms to …We show that FinTech lending affects credit markets and real economic activity using a unique data set of a Peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013302730
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Do macroprudential measures increase inequality? Evidence from the euro area household survey
Georgescu, Oana-Maria; Vila Martin, Diego - 2021
Borrower-based macroprudential (MP) policies - such as caps on loan-to-value (LTV) ratios and debt-service-to-income (DSTI) limits - contain the build-up of systemic risk by reducing the probability and conditional impact of a crisis. While LTV/DSTI limits can increase inequality at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605263
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Do Macroprudential Measures Increase Inequality? Evidence from the Euro Area Household Survey
Georgescu, Oana Maria; Martín, Diego Vila - 2021
Borrower-based macroprudential (MP) policies - such as caps on loan-to-value (LTV) ratios and debt-service-to-income (DSTI) limits - contain the build-up of systemic risk by reducing the probability and conditional impact of a crisis. While LTV/DSTI limits can increase inequality at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222710
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Systemic Risk Rankings and Network Centrality in the European Banking Sector
Bruyckere, Valerie De - 2015
This paper presents a methodology to calculate the Systemic Risk Ranking of financial institutions in the European banking sector using publicly available information. The proposed model makes use of the network structure of financial institutions by including the stock return series of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014960
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Bridging the Banking Sector with the Real Economy : A Financial Stability Perspective
Costeiu, Adrian - 2013
This paper builds a macro-prudential tool designed to assess whether the banking sector is adequately prepared to orderly withstand losses resulting from normal or stressed macroeconomic and micro-economic scenarios. The link between the banking sector and the real sector is established via the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075928
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Shock Amplification in an Interconnected Financial System of Banks and Investment Funds
Sydow, Matthias; Schilte, Aurore; Covi, Giovanni; … - 2021
This paper shows how the combined endogenous reaction of banks and investment funds to an exogenous shock can amplify or dampen losses to the financial system compared to results from single-sector stress testing models. We build a new model of contagion propagation using a very large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216767