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In March 2015, the Eurosystem launched its QE-programme. The asset purchases induced a rapid and strong increase in excess reserves, implying a structural liquidity surplus in the euro area banking sector. Against this background, the first part of this paper analyses the Eurosystem's liquidity...
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Empirical estimations of the drivers for loan extension mainly apply the outstanding stock of bank credit as the … and securitisation activity. This paper specifically applies a variable of new credit extensions for eight Euro area … countries in a simultaneous equation panel model to evaluate potential determinants for credit extension, and compares the …
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in the transmission of monetary policy within the credit channel. …
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As the euro area has a predominantly bank-based financial system, changes in the composition and strength of banks’ balance sheets can have very sizeable implications for the transmission of monetary policy. This paper provides an overview of developments in banks’ balance sheets,...
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On 4 March 2011, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum and the National Bank of Poland jointly organised a conference on the theme of: "Monetary Policy after the Crisis". Following a call for papers with a large number of submissions, the scientific committee selected 9 papers, which...
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credit to firms and households in Denmark. Nonbanks increase their credit supply after a monetary contraction, both relative … to banks and in absolute terms. The nonbank credit expansion is driven by long-term debt funding flowing to nonbanks. The … attenuation of the traditional bank lending channel of monetary policy has real effects: nonbank credit insulates corporate …
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evolution of bank credit. We use a unique loanlevel dataset comprising multiple credit registers from several European countries … and different types of loans, including corporate loans, mortgages and consumer credit. We merge this rich information …) productive firms than firms with high ex ante credit risk, except for banks with low capital. …
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This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and … leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP growth. Notwithstanding the short history of the survey, the findings … also suggest that price as well as non-price conditions and terms of credit standards do matter for credit and business …
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We augment a standard monetary DSGE model to include a banking sector and financial markets. We fit the model to Euro Area and US data. We find that agency problems in financial contracts, liquidity constraints facing banks and shocks that alter the perception of market risk and hit financial...
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We estimate the effects of exogenous innovations to the balance sheet of the ECB since the start of the financial crisis within a structural VAR framework. An expansionary balance sheet shock stimulates bank lending, stabilizes financial markets, and has a positive impact on economic activity...
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