We use unique data on banks' private risk assessments of corporate borrowers to quantify how competition among banks affect the risk sensitivity of interest rates in the Norwegian credit market. We show that an increase in competition makes corporate lending rates less sensitive to banks' own...

Norges Bank has since 1989 been using a risk index for banks. The purpose of this risk index is to identify potential problem banks, and to obtain a general picture of the health of the banking industry. In 1994 the risk index was reconstructed based on research by Sigbjørn Atle Berg and Barbro...

The banking literature contains only a handful of studies of how bank revenues vary over the business cycle, and nearly all of these studies look exclusively on the net interest margin. The general conclusion has been that the margin tends to increase during recessions and decrease during booms....

While the new capital adequacy framework, Basel II, aims to make the banks' capital requirements more sensitive to the underlying risk of the assets, it may also introduce an additional source of procyclicality in the banking sector. A growing share of the literature has assessed the potential...

This paper presents a suite of models developed to stress-test financial stability. A macro model is linked to micro data-based models for households, firms and banks. The macro model includes credit- and consumer confidence-driven house prices and feed-back effects from credit and house prices...

The risk weights banks employ when calculating capital adequacy have been mentioned as a potential macro prudential tool to contain systemic risk emerging in specific sectors. Higher risk weights can to a certain extent mitigate systemic risk, as banks might both set aside more capital and...

Myndigheter og markedsaktører har reist spørsmål om bankene i Norge holder tilstrekkelig med egenkapital bak sine boliglån. Bankene beregner hvor mye egenkapital de må holde ved å vekte sine eiendeler med tilhørende risikovekter. De største bankene (IRB-bankene) benytter egne...

Foretaksinvesteringene betyr mye for konjunkturutviklingen i norsk økonomi. Investeringene i norske fastlandsbedrifter har utviklet seg relativt svakt siden finanskrisen brøt ut høsten 2008, selv om styringsrenten er blitt redusert til et historisk lavt nivå. Modelleringer over perioden...

Norske husholdningers konsum har utviklet seg svakt etter finanskrisen, både i et historisk perspektiv og sammenliknet med andre land. Estimeringer over perioden 1994-2015 tyder på at mer begrenset tilgang til lån og større usikkerhet om den økonomiske utviklingen har dempet konsumet...