concur with the literature documenting how banks adjust their balance sheet composition and credit supply in reaction to …

information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress. Weformulate a simple theoretical model of a banking … industry which we use to identify and constructtheory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). Using both country …

credit growth experienced by these countries. We find that, on average, both bank capitalization and lending activities in … Latin America increased after Basel. Consequently, Basel did not seem to lead to an overall credit decline. However, we do … Basel II might cause greater procyclicality of credit. …

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 … slowing down mortgage credit growth, and that the impact is transmitted mainly through price margins, the same banking channel …

resulting in an acceleration of bank lending. In particular, regulatory reforms pertaining to loan classification and …

This paper empirically analyzes the effects of a banking crisis on bank credit to the private sector for a panel of … developing, developed, and transition economies for the period 1970-1998. The model illustrates how the behavior of the bank … credit function changes during a banking crisis, reflecting a generalized disruption in the stability of behavioral …

This paper investigates macroprudential policy effects on bank systemic risk and the role of inflation targeting in … such effects. Using bank-level data for 45 countries comprising various monetary and exchange rate regimes, our regime … tightening of most macroprudential tools-including DSTI and LTV limits, and capital requirements-reduces bank systemic risk …

We study the characteristics of credit booms in emerging and industrial economies. Macro data show a systematic … relationship between credit booms and economic expansions, rising asset prices, real appreciations and widening external deficits …. Micro data show a strong association between credit booms and leverage ratios, firm values, and banking fragility. We also …