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Accurate measurement of bank risk is a matter of considerable importance for bank regulation and supervision. Current … practices in most countries emphasize reliance on financial statement data for assessing banks’ risk. However, the possibility … of increased reliance on market-based risk indicators has been a topic for academic and regulatory debate for a long time …
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In this paper we aim to find out whether bank specialization and bank capitalization affect the relationship between bank loan growth and bank capital ratio, both in expansions and in contractions. We hypothesize that the impact of bank capital on lending is relatively strong in cooperative...
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In most economies the banking sector plays the major role in the financial system. Therefore, it is of great importance to analyse and understand the mechanism of transmission of monetary policy and its impact on the banking sector. One of the possible repercussions of changing the level of...
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In this paper, we ask about the capacity of macroprudential policies to reduce the procyclical impact of capital ratio on bank lending. We focus on aggregated macroprudential policy measures and on individual instruments and test whether their effect on the association between lending and...
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In this paper, we analyze the role bank capital played in systemic banking crises and in lending expansion and contraction for nearly 150 years in Spain. We first build a measure of capital ratio (i.e., the capital to assets ratio) for Spain's banking sector, starting in 1880. Then, we analyze...
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This study investigated the impact of banking management on credit risk using a sample of Indian commercial banks. The … study employed dynamic panel estimations to evaluate the link between banking management variables and credit risk. The … findings suggest that high capital requirements and large bank size do not reduce default risk, whereas high profitability and …
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of geographic diversification and distance on the performance of banks, the market power of loans and deposits, and the … effect of large and medium banks on the performance of small banks, a sample of commercial banks is selected. The study finds … that geographic diversification and distance between bank branches and headquarters do not affect the performance of the …
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This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone indicator. We find evidence that stronger competition implies significantly lower...
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Applying the identification strategy employed by Driscoll (2004) for the United States, this paper provides empirical evidence for the existence of a bank lending channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area. In addition, and in contrast to recent findings for the US, we find that in...
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This paper analyses the role of bank-related constraints in explaining the sharp slowdown in bank lending to non-financial corporations in Germany during the recent financial crisis. We use a panel approach based on a unique data set which matches the individual responses of the banks...
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