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Despite the remarkable economic and financial convergence over the last ten years in the euro area, mortgage interest rates still differ across countries. This note presents some stylised facts on the heterogeneity of mortgage interest rates across euro area countries on the basis of the...
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Despite the remarkable economic and financial convergence over the last ten years in the euro area, mortgage interest rates still differ across countries. This note presents some stylised facts on the heterogeneity of mortgage interest rates across euro area countries on the basis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777696
markets leading to looser credit standards and subsequent financial stability problems. We analyze the sequential … deterioration of credit in this country considering rating changes in individual securitized deals and on balance sheet bank … which loan growth, on balancesheet credit quality and rating changes are estimated simultaneously. Our results suggest that …
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We study the impact of macroprudential capital buffers on banking groups' lending and risk-taking decisions, also … buffers, subsidiaries deleverage lending and risk-taking towards non-financial corporations and marginally expanded lending … affiliated banks' lending activity. Therefore, to ensure the effectiveness of macroprudential policy, it is essential that …
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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 … in lower credit provision when risk intensifies. Certain features of the IRB models - the use of a downturn Loss Given …
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A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a two-pronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality … tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition …
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We study the effect of government encouraged or mandated interchange fee ceilings on consumer and merchant adoption and usage of payment cards in an economy where card acceptance is far from complete. We believe that we are the first to use bank-level data to study the impact of interchange fee...
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macroprudential policy is represented by a convex dependence of bank capital requirements on the quantity of uncollateralized credit …
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This paper examines the interactions of macroprudential and monetary policies. We find, using a range of macroeconomic models used at the European Central Bank, that in the long run, a 1% bank capital requirement increase has a small impact on GDP. In the short run, GDP declines by 0.15-0.35%....
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The response of major central banks to the global financial crisis has revived the debate around the interactions between monetary policy (MP) and bank stability. This technical paper sheds light, quantitatively, on the different mechanisms underlying the relationship between MP and bank...
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