This paper presents a new dataset on the dynamics of non-performing loans (NPLs) during 88 banking crises since 1990. The data show similarities across crises during NPL build-ups but less so during NPL resolutions. We find a close relationship between NPL problems-elevated and unresolved...

During the global financial crisis, European banks contracted foreign claims on recipient economies sharply. This paper examines the impact of that deleveraging on credit supply in recipient economies, with a particular focus on Asia. Identification is achieved by exploiting heterogeneity in...

This paper studies how fiscal policy in the eurozone and the United States (US) affected banks’ loan loss provisioning during the COVID-19 crisis. By decomposing government support into below-the-line (loan guarantees) and above-the-line (cash transfers) support, we examine how both types of...

This paper analyzes the design of simple macroprudential rules for bank and non-bank credit markets in a medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. In the model, mutual funds support corporate bond issuance by firms with access to capital markets; a banking sector supplies loans...

This paper presents a new dataset on the dynamics of non-performing loans (NPLs) during 88 banking crises since 1990. The data show similarities across crises during NPL build-ups but less so during NPL resolutions. We find a close relationship between NPL problems-elevated and unresolved...

We discuss the new Basel bank capital framework and the central bank's general approach to its practical implementation in the home-host context of Australia and New Zealand. Bank capital plays an important role in absorbing large financial losses, especially under severe downturn conditions....