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We investigate the U.S. experience with macroprudential policies by studying the interagency guidance on leveraged lending. We find that the guidance primarily impacted large, closely supervised banks, but only after supervisors issued important clarifications. It also triggered a migration of...
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Monitoring is one of the main activities explaining the existence of banks, yet empirical evidence about its effect on loan outcomes is scant. Using granular loan-level information from the Italian Credit Register, we build a novel measure of bank monitoring based on banks' requests for...
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I study the effects of an increase in the supply of local mortgage credit on local house prices and employment by exploiting a natural experiment from Switzerland. In mid-2008, losses in U.S. security holdings triggered a migration of dissatisfied retail customers from a large, universal bank,...
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We observe significant heterogeneity in the correlation between changes in house prices and the growth of small firms across certain countries in Europe. We find that, overall, the correlation is far greater in Southern Europe than in Northern Europe. Using a simple model, we show that this...
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's prediction that small firms may be unable to access liquidity when large shocks arrive using data on drawdowns in the COVID … large firms on pre-committed lines of credit. Differences in demand for liquidity cannot fully explain the differences in … and 125 percent of the amount of their PPP funds, suggesting that government-sponsored liquidity can overcome private …
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Banks have progressively evolved from being standalone institutions to being subsidiaries of increasingly complex financial conglomerates. We conjecture and provide evidence that the organizational complexity of the family of a bank is a fundamental driver of the business model of the bank...
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While the balance sheet structure of U.S. banks influences how they respond to liquidity risks, the mechanisms for the …-sectional differences in response to liquidity risk depend on the banks' shares of core deposit funding. By contrast, differences across … global banks (those with foreign affiliates) are associated with ex ante liquidity management strategies as reflected in …
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