This paper offers novel evidence on the impact of raising bank capital requirements in the context of an emerging … market: Peru. Using quarterly bank-level data and exploiting the adoption of bank-specific capital buffers, we find that … higher capital requirements have a short-lived, negative impact on bank credit in Peru, although this effect becomes …

due to bank funding shortages from the sovereign debt crisis were a major factor behind the lending slowdown in late 2011 …

Ministers and Central Bank Governors in September 2015. The DGI-2 recommendations maintain the continuity of DGI-1 but …

This simulation-based paper investigates the impact of different methods of dynamic provisioning on bank soundness and …

euro area Bank Lending Survey to assess the effectiveness of macro-prudential policies in containing credit growth and … house price appreciation in mortgage markets. We find instruments targeting the cost of bank capital most effective in …

This paper reviews the empirical relationships between credit growth, economic recovery, and bank profitability in … underperformance. Bank lending has been subdued as well, but this appears to have only held back the recovery relatively moderately. A … 10 percent increase in bank credit to the private sector is associated with a rise of 0.6-1 percent in real GDP and 2 …

Determinants of bank-level credit growth in Saudi Arabia are investigated by applying a panel approach to data spanning … 2000-15. Strong bank balance sheet conditions, economic activity, and oil prices support bank lending. Reduced bank … concentration appears to have helped. Lending remained robust in 2015 despite oil prices having declined, helped by strong bank …

productivity. The analysis reveals that the link between productivity and bank credit growth is weaker for firms with significant …