The EU’s transposition of Basel II into European law has been done through the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). Although the Directive establishes, in general, uniform rules to set capital requirements across European countries, there are some areas where the Directive allows some...

Poco se sabe todavía sobre los factores que determinan el uso de garantías personales en comparación con las garantías reales en el marco de los préstamos bancarios a empresas, así como sobre su posterior impacto en la toma de decisiones de las empresas. Este trabajo analiza 477.209...

Los colchones de capital para las entidades de importancia sistémica (EIS) fueron diseñados para mitigar los riesgos que suponen estos bancos grandes y complejos. Mediante un modelo de datos de panel para una muestra de bancos europeos que cotizan en bolsa se demuestra que los requerimientos...

Artículo de revista ; The growth of crypto-assets in recent years, their potential use as a means of exchange or saving, and their possible risks to financial stability, arising, among other things, from their interconnections with the banking sector, have drawn the attention of national and...

Artículo de revista ; As in other countries, the effect of the pandemic and the global recession on the Turkish economy was mitigated by the fiscal, financial and monetary support implemented by the country’s authorities. In fact, Turkey was one of the few economies of significant size to...

Since bank credit lines are a major source of corporate funding, we examine the determinants of credit line usage with a comprehensive database of Spanish corporate credit lines. A line’s default status is a key factor driving its usage, which increases as a firm’s financial condition...

Using information of the balance sheets of Spanish banks between 1995 and 2009, we estimate the average impact of current and anticipated changes in banks’ capital on fi rm lending. We isolate the role of credit supply factors using the variation in capital growth associated to the...

This paper examines whether financial constraints affect firms’ investment decisions for older (larger) firms. We compare a group of unbanked firms to firms that rely on formal financing. Specifically, we combine data from the Spanish Mercantile Registry and the Bank of Spain Credit Registry...

Este trabajo ha recibido el primer Premio Federico Prades para jóvenes economistas de la Fundación AEB (Asociación Española de Banca) ; La introducción del factor de soporte del crédito a las pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) —conocido como SME SF, por sus siglas en inglés—...