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lower capacity, to lend to a region following a destructive event such as a natural disaster. We test whether there are … differences in post-disaster credit allocation and regional redevelopment based on the concentration of local banking at the time … of an economic shock. We find causal evidence of less credit allocated and somewhat weaker redevelopment in regions with …
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Business cycles imply liquidity risks for banks. This paper explores how these risks influence bank lending over the cycle. With forward-looking banks, lending cycles, credit booms and busts, or suppressed and highly fragile bank systems can emerge, depending on the magnitude of liquidity risks....
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A bank's decision on loan supply and capital structure determines its immediate bankruptcy risk as well as the future availability of internal funds. These internal funds in turn determine a bank's future costs of external finance and future vulnerability to bankruptcy risks. We study these...
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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This paper attempts to investigate the impact of credit information sharing on bank-specific stock price crash risk. Using a sample of 1,402 listed-banks in 55 countries for the period 2005-2013, we show that credit information sharing through public credit registries is negatively associated...
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This paper is the first to assess the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) at loan level by looking at the structure of loan syndicates. While the purpose of TARP was to stimulate the flow of credit during the economic downturn, the low cost of capital could have functioned as a double-edged...
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This paper develops a formula to numerically estimate the unsubsidized, fair-market value of the toxic assets purchased with Federal Reserve loans. It finds that subsidy rates on these loans were on average 33.9 percent at origination. In contrast, by the 3rd quarter of the 2010, there was on...
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This paper looks at the macroeconomic impact of the two policies proposed by ECB Banking Supervision to tackle the high share of non-performing loans (NPLs) on the balance sheets of euro area banks. The first is the coverage expectations for new NPLs set out in the Addendum to the ECB's NPL...
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This paper looks at the credit rating adjustments on Eurozone banks that followed the post-crisis regulation of bank resolution in Europe in 2014. The empirical assessment analyses within-bank variation using the credit ratings of the major Eurozone banks. The analysis shows that with the...
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Following the financial crisis, the share of non-performing loans has significantly increased, while the regulatory guidelines on the Internal-Ratings Based (IRB) approach for capital adequacy calculation related to defaulted exposures remains too general. As a result, the high-risk nature of...
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