Der Ausschuss für Finanzstabilität hat die Einführung makroprudenzieller Instrumente für die Immobilienfinanzierung vorgeschlagen. Darunter fallen Beschränkungen bei den Beleihungsausläufen, bei der Gesamtverschuldung, bei dem Zins-dienst sowie Anforderungen an die Tilgung. Diese...

Excessive household borrowing has been identified as an important determinant of financial crises. Borrower-based macroprudential instruments have been proposed as a possible remedy. In Germany, two instruments have been available to macroprudential supervisors since 2017: a cap on the...

Part I. Institutional Framework for Macroprudential in Islamic Banking System -- 1. Macroprudential Policy and Regulation in A Dual Banking System: An Exploratory Perspective -- 2. Doctrinal Challenge for Islamic Banking on Macroprudential Regulations: A Religion-Regulation Mismatch 2.0 -- 3....

Im Mittelpunkt der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte über die Covid-19-Pandemie steht bisher die Realwirtschaft. Dort hatte sich der Lockdown direkt und schockartig ausgewirkt; der stationäre Einzelhandel war weitgehend unterbunden, Hotel und Gaststätten waren geschlossen, Lieferketten national...

Climate change causes natural disasters to occur at higher frequency and increased severity. Using a unique dataset on German banks, this paper explores how regionally less diversified banks in Germany adjusted their loan loss provisioning following the severe summer flood of 2013, which...

Exploiting a granular dataset of banks' security holdings I assess the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bank lending and security holdings. Using a difference-in-differences regression setup and holding the security composition of each bank constant at its level in January 2014, well...

This paper sheds light on the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on bank lending. Using data on German banks for 2014-2016, I show that QE encourages banks to rebalance from securities to loans. For identification, I use bond redemptions as exogenous variation in banks' need to rebalance their...

This paper sheds light on the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on bank lending. Using data on German banks for 2014-2016, I show that QE encourages banks to rebalance from securities to loans. For identification, I use bond redemptions as exogenous variation in banks' need to rebalance their...

This paper studies the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bank lending and security holdings. I exploit granular security register data and use a difference - in-differences regression setup to provide evidence for the presence of a yield-induced portfolio rebalancing channel: Banks...