We identify the impact of short-term interest rates on credit risk-taking by analyzing a comprehensive credit register from Spain, a country where for the last twenty years monetary policy was mostly decided abroad. Discrete choice, within borrower comparison and duration analyses show that...

A common assumption in the academic literature is that franchise value plays a key role in limiting bank risk-taking. As market power is the primary source of franchise value, reduced competition in banking markets has been seen as promoting banking stability. We test this hypothesis using data...

To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks...

Mientras que los bancos pueden cambiar su oferta de crédito tras sufrir shocks que afectan a sus balances (el canal local del préstamo), las empresas pueden reaccionar ajustando sus fuentes de financiación en equilibrio (el canal agregado del préstamo). En este papel proporcionamos una...

En este trabajo mostramos que los estándares de concesión de préstamos por parte de los bancos se ven afectados por las condiciones macroeconómicas. Utilizamos datos mensuales entre 2002 y 2015 de la Central de Información de Riesgos del Banco de España (CIRBE), que nos permiten monitorear...

This article presents a detailed analysis of the loan moratoria. The first part of the article describes the characteristics of the five types of moratoria and how the numbers of applications made and moratoria granted have evolved to date. It then outlines the status of the existing moratoria...

En este documento mostramos que los incentivos privados afectan a la asignación de préstamos con aval público (PGL), lo que da como resultado que los bancos más débiles hayan acabado transfiriendo el riesgo de los préstamos con empresas más arriesgadas a los contribuyentes. En cuanto a la...

To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks...

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