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overnight unsecured loans. Using proprietary bank-level data, we find that interbank rate uncertainty significantly raises … positions and greater access to central bank funding …
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policy period, change in banks’ competitive behaviour affected the bank lending channel and discouraged banks from taking …
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explain about two-thirds of the variation of bank capitalization over the business cycle. We estimate that provisioning …
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estimated while controlling for the macroeconomic environment. An increase in bank' balance sheet risk is shown to increase the …
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How do banks respond to changes in capital requirements as a result of the stress tests? Does the disclosure of stress test results matter? To answer these questions, we study the impact of European stress tests on banks’ lending, their corresponding risk-taking, the ensuing effect on their...
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This paper investigates the relationship between short-term interest rates and bank risk. Using a unique database that …
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how the transmission depends on bank balance sheets, and how this changes once policy rates become negative. We review the …
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develops a simple analytical framework to study the impact of central bank policy-rate changes on banks' credit supply and risk …-taking incentives. Unobservable expost bank monitoring of loans creates an external-financing constraint, which determines bank leverage …. Unobservable, costly ex-ante screening of borrowers determines the level of bank risk-taking. More risk-taking tightens the …
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This paper investigates whether European banks have capital targets and how deviations from the target impact their equity composition and activity mix. Using quarterly data for a sample of large European banks between 2004 and 2011, we show that there are notable asymmetries in banks' reactions...
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We show that negative policy rates affect the supply of bank credit in a novel way. Banks are reluctant to pass on … low-deposit banks. As a consequence, the introduction of negative policy rates by the European Central Bank in mid-2014 …
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