Couaillier, Cyril; Lo Duca, Marco; Reghezza, Alessio; … - 2022
While regulatory capital buffers are expected to be drawn to absorb losses and meet credit demand during crises, this …-cyclical behaviour to preserve capital ratios. By employing granular data from the credit register of the European System of Central … Banks, we isolate credit supply effects and find that banks with little headroom above regulatory buffers reduced their …
