their regulatory ratio by altering their collateral pledging with the European Central Bank. We use the existence of … assets. Using security-level information on collateral pledged with the central bank, we find that banks without a preceding … national liquidity requirement pledge more and less liquid collateral than banks with a preceding national liquidity …

secured and unsecured markets following an adverse shock to credit risk. The scarcity of underlying collateral may amplify the …

credit via revaluation of collateral and subsequent lending decisions. Specifically we examine banks’ treatment of real … estate collateral during the Covid-19 crisis. First we find evidence of significant frictions in the trans-mission of asset … price dynamics to collateral values. Despite this we find that lending relationships reliant on real estate collateral …

the credit risk of their corporate loan portfolios when the latter are used as collateral in the Eurosystem’s monetary … actually used as Eurosystem collateral, particularly for large loans. The less conservative estimates of risk by IRBs relative … findings suggest the existence of a collateral-related channel through which the use of IRB ratings may influence the internal …