Dautovic, Ernest; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Reghezza, Alessio - 2023
At the onset of the Covid-19 outbreak, central banks and supervisors introduced dividend restrictions as a new policy … estimate the impact of the ECB's dividend recommendation on bank lending and risk-taking. To address identification issues, we … fiscal policies that supported credit during the Covid-19 downturn and investigates their interaction with the dividend …