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Bank Sectoral Concentration and (Systemic) Risk : Evidence from a Worldwide Sample of Banks
Beck, Thorsten - 2018
connectedness), and fi nancial sector exposure (capturing direct connectedness) and show external validity for these measures. We fi … nd that both individual and systemic bank risk decrease withspecialization. Indirect connectedness of banks is … particularly (and negatively) related to individual bank risk, whereas direct connectedness of banks is particularly (and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934143
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Supervising Cross-Border Banks : Theory, Evidence and Policy
Beck, Thorsten - 2012
This paper analyzes the distortions that banks' cross-border activities, such as foreign assets, deposits and equity, can introduce into regulatory interventions. We find that while each individual dimension of cross-border activities distorts the incentives of a domestic regulator, a balanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113426
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Bank sectoral concentration and (systemic) risk : evidence from a worldwide sample of banks
Beck, Thorsten; De Jonghe, Olivier; Mulier, Klaas - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671795
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Bank Resolution Regimes and Systemic Risk
Beck, Thorsten - 2020
We assess the ability of bank resolution frameworks to deal with systemic banking fragility. Using a novel and detailed database on bank resolution regimes in 22 member countries of the Financial Stability Board, we show that systemic risk, as measured by Delta CoVaR, increases more for banks in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834943
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When arm's length is too far : relationship banking over the business cycle
Beck, Thorsten; Degryse, Hans; Haas, Ralph de; Horen, … - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375321
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Exchange rate depreciations and local business cycles : the role of bank loan supply
Beck, Thorsten; Bednarek, Peter; Kaat, Daniel Marcel te; … - 2021
This paper uses matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro to show that exchange rate depreciations lead to increased bank loan supply of large banks with significant net foreign asset exposure. This increase in lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792736
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When Arm's Length Is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
We conduct face-to-face interviews with bank CEOs to classify 397 banks across 21 countries as either relationship or transaction lenders. We then use the geographic coordinates of these banks' branches and of 14,100 businesses to analyze how the lending techniques of banks in the vicinity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972990
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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048226
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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050469
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When Arm's Length is Too Far. Relationship Banking Over the Business Cycle
Beck, Thorsten - 2014
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051624