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An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity … the thrift regulator (OTS) to analyze economic links between strict supervision, bank lending and business activity. We … capital but can also correct deficiencies in bank management and lending practices, leading to more lending and a reallocation …
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An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity … supervision, bank lending and business activity. We first show that the OTS replacement indeed resulted in stricter supervision of … overcome frictions in bank management, leading to more lending and a reallocation of loans. Consistent with the latter, we find …
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the …
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554963
In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment in which thrifts in several states witnessed an exogenous reduction in supervisory attention to assess the effect of supervision on financial institutions' willingness to take risk. We show that the affected institutions took on much more risk than...
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We analyze the root causes of the current crisis by studying the determinants of bank lending standards in the Euro … Area using the answers from the confidential Bank Lending Survey, where national central banks request quarterly …-term interest rates on bank risk-taking, even when we instrument securitization. Moreover, short-term rates – directly and in …
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We analyse the impact of the adoption of expected credit loss accounting (IFRS 9) on the timeliness and potential procyclicality of banks' loan loss provisioning. We use granular loan-level data from the euro area's credit register and investigate both firm-level credit events and macroeconomic...
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Discrimination in lending can occur either in face-to-face decisions or in algorithmic scoring. We provide a workable interpretation of the courts' legitimate-business-necessity defense of statistical discrimination. We then estimate the extent of racial/ethnic discrimination in the largest...
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this background, this paper examines how holdings of cryptocurrencies on a bank’s balance sheet would be treated under EU … International Financial Reporting Standards and the Bank Accounts Directive is explored. The analyses confirm that long …
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