Kick, Thomas; Kreiser, Swetlana; Merkl, Christian - 2018
In the presence of financial frictions, banks' capital position may constrain their ability to provide loans. The … banking sector may thus have important feedback effects on the macroeconomy. To shed new light on this issue, we combine two … approaches. First, we use microeconomic balance sheet data from Germany and estimate banks' loan supply response to capital …