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leverage on GDP, credit and the interest rate spread. Increasing capital requirements for banks should therefore have no strong …
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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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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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How do the business cycle effects of loan supply shocks depend on the state of prudential regulation in the euro area? To address this question, we first identify regulatory cycles from a cumulative prudential policy index that tracks the evolution of the regulatory stance in the euro area....
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Based on a mean-variance model of bank portfolio selection subject to the value-at-risk constraint, we make predictions on transmission channels through which lower long-term interest rates increase bank loan supply: the portfolio balance channel, the bank balance sheet channel, and the...
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decreasing the average rate on new loans.Credit and interest rate risk premiums are clearly observable in banks' lending rates …
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We study how monetary conditions change the supply by banks of mortgage credit to households. We exploit the widespread … presence of foreign currency mortgages in Hungary and study this country`s comprehensive credit registry. Changes in monetary … conditions not only affect the supply of credit in volume, but also in its currency and risk composition. Hence, we establish a …
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measures that aim to avoid credit overexpansion are two policies that can improve the links of private debt with labour income …
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We use bank retail interest rates as price examples in a study of the determinants of price durations. The extraordinary richness of the data allows us to address some major open issues from the price rigidity literature, such as the functional form of the hazard of changing a price, the effect...
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