natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by … cutting back on lending but also by reallocating credit to firms in financial distress with prior underreported loan loss … credit reallocation leads to a reallocation of production factors across firms. A partial equilibrium exercise suggests that …

Union (EMU) banking sector. The paper's central hypothesis that capital adequacy of the EMU banking sector influenced credit …, the sub-hypothesis that higher capital adequacy resulted in negative credit growth was supported for the crisis period. We …