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This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … are more frequently discouraged from applying for bank credit and more likely to rely on informal finance. At the same … not driven by credit risk differences between female- and male-owned firms or by any idiosyncrasies in the set of …
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uncollateralized credit. We find that this kind of policy is more successful in suppressing equity price swings than moderating output …
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to activate macroprudential tools targeting excessive credit growth and leverage. To robustly select the key indicators … using credit to GDP gaps, credit to GDP ratios and credit growth rates, as well as real estate variables in addition to a …
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How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks’ attitude towards risk? The answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank’s risk aversion. We handle this constraint by means of a novel...
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credit growth is used to capture cyclical exuberance and calibrate buffer requirements, it depends on potentially … heterogeneous dynamics on the borrower and lender side. By decomposing credit growth into a common component and components … capturing heterogeneity in supply and demand à la Amiti and Weinstein, 2018 applied on the euro area credit register ("AnaCredit …
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This paper investigates to what extent the introduction of negative monetary policy rates altered competitive behaviour in the euro area banking sector. Specifically, it analyses the effect that negative policy rates had on euro area banks’ market power in comparison to banks that have not...
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This paper presents evidence that personal relationships between corporate borrowers and bank loan officers improve the outcomes of loan renegotiation. Analysing a bank reorganization in Greece in the mid-2010s, I find that firms that experience an exogenous interruption in their loan officer...
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We study the functioning of secured and unsecured interbank markets in the presence of credit risk. The model generates … secured and unsecured markets following an adverse shock to credit risk. The scarcity of underlying collateral may amplify the …
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We analyse the effects of supranational versus national banking supervision on credit supply, and its interactions with … monetary policy. For identification, we exploit: (i) a new, proprietary dataset based on 15 European credit registers; (ii) the … supervision reduces credit supply to firms with very high ex-ante and ex-post credit risk, while stimulating credit supply to …
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with the pandemic response measures, banks' ability to supply credit would have been severely affected. The results also … measures in supporting liquidity conditions and helping to sustain the flow of credit to the private sector. Finally, we …
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