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In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment in which thrifts in several states witnessed an exogenous reduction in supervisory attention to assess the effect of supervision on financial institutions' willingness to take risk. We show that the affected institutions took on much more risk than...
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This paper presents empirical evidence on the effect of banks' financial position on credit growth using a sample of 29 … most important predictor of credit growth in the current year. The relationship between capital and credit growth is non … (decrease) in capital is associated with an increase (decrease) of 0.8 (0.3) percentage points in credit growth upon impact and …
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We explore the structural drivers of bank and nonbank credit cycles using an estimated medium-scale macro model that … potentially drive bank and nonbank credit growth. We find that sectoral shocks affecting the balance sheets of entrepreneurs who … borrow from the financial sector are important for the business cycle frequency fluctuations in bank and nonbank credit …
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countries experiencing systemic banking crises on profitability, credit, and the performance of borrower firms. Crisis exposures … reduce bank returns and tighten credit conditions for borrowers, constraining investment and growth. The effects are larger …
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We find that that the Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) standard would slightly dampen fluctuations in bank lending … over the economic cycle. In particular, if the CECL standard had always been in place, we estimate that lending would have … historical allowances under CECL and modeling how the impact on accounting variables would have affected banks' lending and …
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available unique data on the bilateral cross-border lending flows of 27 BIS-reporting lending banking systems to over 50 … shocks in a currency significantly affect cross-border lending flows in that currency, even when neither the lending banking … system nor the borrowing country uses that currency as their own. Second, this transmission works mainly through lending to …
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We investigate how the introduction of market-based pricing, the practice of tying loan interest rates to credit …
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This paper examines the mechanism through which banking sector distress affects the availability of credit. We use the … Commerce regarding the availability of credit, and examine which aspects of the banking system collapse affected credit … availability as indicated by the survey. A number of scholars have posited different ways that bank distress constrained credit …
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In a seminal article on small business lending, Petersen & Rajan (2002) argue that technological changes have … revolutionized small business lending markets, weakening the reliance of small businesses on local lenders and increasing geographic … distances between firms and their credit suppliers. While their data only cover through 1993, they conjecture that the pace of …
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flow of credit to small and mid-sized firms during the COVID-19 crisis on bank lending to businesses. Using instrumental …We study the effects of the Main Street Lending Program (MSLP)—an emergency lending program aimed at supporting the … the flow of bank credit during the pandemic by serving as a backstop to the bank loan market and by increasing banks …
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