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This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001-2012 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management, signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the business...
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This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001-2012 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management, signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026612
Using a worldwide bank sample from 2000 to 2010, this article analyzes the determinants of bank lending behavior during … the global financial crisis highlighting the role of bank capital. It reveals that the high quality of the bank funding … strategy (tier 1 bank capital and retail deposits) and prevalent government backing were crucial to continuous bank lending …
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This paper examines whether a bank's equity capital affects the magnitude of credit lines that banks provide as … more pronounced during financial crises, wherein the probability of bank failure increases significantly. This suggests …
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expectations for NPLs are found to be effective in reducing banks' NPLs. The phase-in of the policies can temporarily reduce bank …
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We study the impact of macroprudential capital buffers on banking groups' lending and risk-taking decisions, also investigating implications for internal capital markets. For identification, we exploit heterogeneity in buffers applied to other systemically important institutions, using...
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. We use a unique database for the French banking sector between 2003 and 2011 combining confidential bank-level Bank …
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This paper makes a fundamental contribution by studying loan-loss provisioning over the credit cycle as three distinct phases. Looking at the three distinct phases of the financial crisis — the pre-crisis period, crisis period, and post-crisis period — is important as loan-loss provisioning...
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Loan loss reserves make up an essential part of a bank's soundness and more generally its viability. An under …-provisioned reserve account implies that capital ratios may overstate a bank's ability to absorb future losses. For this reason, both …
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This paper studies the impact of higher additional capital requirements on loan growth to private sector of banks in the Czech Republic. The empirical results indicate that there is a negative effect of higher additional capital requirements on loan growth of banks with relatively low capital...
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