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Financial regulation, financial globalization and the synchronization of economic activity

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Papaioannou, Elias; Peydró, … - 2010

We identify the effect of financial integration on international business cycle synchronization, by utilizing a confidential database on banks' bilateral exposure and employing a country-pair panel instrumental variables approach. Countries that become more integrated over time have less...

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Regulating the doom loop

Alogoskoufis, Spyros; Langfield, Sam - 2019

Euro area governments have committed to break the doom loop between banks and sovereigns. But policymakers disagree on how to treat sovereign exposures in bank regulation. Our contribution is to model endogenous sovereign portfolio reallocation by banks in response to regulatory reform....

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Monetary policy and capital regulation in the US and Europe

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Morse, Jonathan - 2010

From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered interest rates. Both sets of changes are at odds with an anti-inflationary stance of monetary policy; indeed, as the crisis began in August 2007 inflation expectations were high...

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When losses turn into loans : the cost of undercapitalized banks

Blattner, Laura; Farinha, Luísa A.; Rebelo, Francisco - 2019

We provide evidence that a weak banking sector has contributed to low productivity growth following the European … natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by … the resulting increase in factor misallocation accounts for 20% of the decline in productivity in Portugal in 2012. …

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Bank risk-taking, securitization, supervision and low interest rates : evidence from the euro area and the U.S. lending standards

Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - 2010

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short-term interest rates soften standards, for household and corporate loans. This softening - especially for mortgages - is amplified by securitization activity, weak supervision for...

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The disciplining effect of supervisory scrutiny in the EU-wide stress test

Kok Sørensen, Christoffer; Müller, Carola; Ongena, Steven - 2021

Using a difference-in-differences approach and relying on conftdential supervisory data and an unique proprietary data set available at the European Central Bank related to the 2016 EU-wide stress test, this paper presents novel empirical evidence that supervisory scrutiny associated to stress...

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Banks' risk-taking within a banking union

Farnè, Matteo; Vouldis, Angelos - 2021

We study the relationship between banks' size and risk-taking in the context of supranational banking supervision. Consistently with theoretical work on banking unions and in contrast to analyses emphasising incentives under- pinned by the too-big-to-fail effect, we find an inverse relationship...

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Business models of the banks in the euro area

Farnè, Matteo; Vouldis, Angelos - 2017

The paper identifies the business models followed by banks in the euro area, utilising a proprietary dataset collected in the context of the supervisory reporting of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. The concept of a 'business model' has been neglected by economic theory and is defined here with...

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Rules and discretion(s) in prudential regulation and supervision : evidence from EU banks in the run-up to the crisis

Maddaloni, Angela; Scopelliti, Alessandro - 2019

Prior to the financial crisis, prudential regulation in the EU was implemented non-uniformly across countries, as options and discretions allowed national authorities to apply a more favorable regulatory treatment. We exploit the national implementation of the CRD and derive a country measure of...

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Cross-border effects of prudential regulation : evidence from the euro area

Franch, Fabio; Nocciola, Luca; Żochowski, Dawid - 2019

We analyse the cross-border propagation of prudential regulation in the euro area. Using the Prudential Instruments Database (Cerutti et al., 2017b) and a unique confidential database on balance sheets items of euro-area financial institutions we estimate panel models for 248 banks from 16...

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