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Denmark : 2021 Article IV consultation : press release; staff report; and staff supplement
Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2021
Denmark entered the pandemic on a strong economic footing and utilized its large policy space built over time to successfully address the crisis and lay the ground for a strong recovery. The outlook is for a rebound in activity, but uncertainty remains elevated with risks tilted to the downside....
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Does capital regulation matter for bank behaviour? Evidence for German savings banks
Heid, Frank; Porath, Daniel; Stolz, Stéphanie - 2004
The aim of this paper is to assess how German savings banks adjust capital and risk under capital regulation. We estimate a modified version of the model developed by Shrieves and Dahl (1992). This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. First, we test the capital buffer theory...
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Banks' regulatory capital buffer and the business cycle: evidence for German savings and cooperative banks
Stolz, Stéphanie; Wedow, Michael - 2005
This paper analyzes the effect of the business cycle on the regulatory capital buffer of German savings and cooperative banks in the period 1993-2003. The capital buffer is found to fluctuate anticyclically over the business cycle. The fluctuation is stronger for savings banks than for...
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How Do Banks Determine Capital? Empirical Evidence for Germany
Weber, Martin; Kleff, Volker - 2003
This paper examines how capital is determined by German banks. We analyse whether the determinants found in the previous empirical literature hold for the special German banking sector with its three characteristic banking groups of savings banks, cooperative banks and other banks. On the basis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297333
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Does capital regulation matter for bank behavior? Evidence for German savings banks
Heid, Frank; Porath, Daniel; Stolz, Stéphanie - 2003
The aim of this paper is to assess how German savings banks adjust capital and risk under capital regulation. We estimate a modified version of the model developed by Shrieves and Dahl (1992). In comparison to former research, we impose fewer restrictions with regard to the impact of regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276736
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Do better capitalized banks lend less? Long-run panel evidence from Germany
Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012
reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect business loans? While there is widespread belief that the real costs … of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283577
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Do better capitalized banks lend less? Long-run panel evidence from Germany
Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012
reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect business loans? While there is widespread belief that the real costs … of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309227
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Securities trading by banks and credit supply : micro-evidence from the crisis
Abbassi, Puriya; Iyer, Rajkamal; Peydró, José-Luis; … - In: Journal of financial economics 121 (2016) 3, pp. 569-594
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Securities trading by banks and credit supply : micro-evidence
Abbassi, Puriya; Iyer, Rajkamal; Peydró, José-Luis; … - 2015
We analyze securities trading by banks and the associated spillovers to the supply of credit.Empirical analysis has been elusive due to the lack of securities register for banks. We use a unique, proprietary dataset that has the investments of banks at the security level for 2005-2012 in...
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Flooded through the back door: the role of bank capital in local shock spillovers
Rehbein, Oliver; Ongena, Steven - 2020
This paper demonstrates that low bank capital carries a negative externality because it amplifies local shock spillovers. We exploit a natural disaster that is transmitted to firms in non-disaster areas via their banks. Firms connected to a strongly disaster-exposed bank with lowest-quartile...
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