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In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, a number of European OECD countries introduced credit mediation schemes, as a new, often temporary mechanism to help ease access to finance by SMEs. This report investigates the nature of credit mediation and credit review schemes implemented in...
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The banking sector in the United Kingdom (UK) was deeply affected by the crisis. Bank credit has collapsed reflecting … to improve access to finance united under the roof of the British Business Bank. Further structural reforms are needed to …
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deteriorate further, which could require significant bank recapitalisation. Updated bottom-up (i.e. loan by loan) stress tests are … assumptions should be made public. The creation of the Bank Asset Management Company (BAMC) should allow recognition of problems …
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Banking regulators often practice forbearance and ambiguity in insolvency resolutions. The paper examines the effects of regulatory forbearance and ambiguity in a context of allocational efficiency. Bailouts, liquidations and their stochastic policy mix lead to suboptimal allocations if banks do...
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step towards fair burden sharing. Bank recapitalisation, if necessary, should be done by raising the level of capital so as … accounts for systemic risks in Hungary. Finally, an effective independence of the central bank has to be guaranteed. This …
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Dutch banks were put under heavy strains early in the global downturn and have comparatively weak financial buffers to cope with new shocks. Falling house prices have increased the share of households with negative home equity to nearly 35% for home-owning households and 40% for mortgage...
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assesses the effect of the NIRP on the net interest rate margins of the euro area banks using quarterly consolidated bank level … policy rates. The econometric results confirm the effect of the interest rate level on bank profitability and, in some … specifications, also suggest an additional negative effect on bank profitability in the period of negative euro area short …
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