We analyze the transmission of bank-specific liquidity shocks triggered by a credit rating downgrade through the lending channel. Using bank-level data for US Bank Holding Companies, we find that a credit rating downgrade is associated with an immediate and persistent decline in access to...

We study the effect of the increase in Italian sovereign debt risk on credit supply on a sample of 670,000 bank-firm relationships between December 2010 and December 2011, drawn from the Italian Central Credit Register. To identify a causal link, we exploit the lower impact of sovereign risk on...

This paper outlines a framework for mapping the effects of Basel III increases in capital and liquidity requirements on cross-border bank lending to emerging market economies. In a traditional push and pull scheme, the effects of capital and liquidity ratios are disentangled through 6 specific...

This paper explores whether the level of financial integration of banks in a country increases the incidence of systemic banking crises. The paper uses a de facto proxy for financial integration based on network statistics of banks participating in the global market of interbank syndicated...

We contributed to the empirical evidence of the impact of macroeconomic environment on the non-performing loans (NPL) ratio dynamics by analyzing the panel model with fixed effects, the model with random effects and instrumental variable regressions to control for a potential endogeneity...

This paper asks whether bonanzas (surges) in net capital inflows increase the probability of banking crises and whether this is necessarily through a lending boom mechanism. A fixed effects regression analysis indicates that a baseline bonanza, identified as a surge of one standard deviation...

This study is a theoretical overview on the origin and formation mechanisms of the financial crisis. We first presented a typology of these crises on the basis of specific symptoms and we proposed statistical indicators of instabilities correspondent to each type of crisis. We also evaluated the...

Acest studiu investigheaza rolul capitalului strain, al creditarii bancare si al îndatorarii sectorului privat în formarea dezechilibrelor premergatoare crizei financiare din tarile europene. Mai întâi, am aratat ca atât stocul de credit total, cât si cel privat sunt puternic corelate cu...

Prezentul studiu reprezinta o sinteza teoretica privind originea si mecanismele de formare a crizelor financiare. Am realizat mai întâi o tipologie a acestor crize în functie de simptomele specifice si am propus indicatori statistici ai vulnerabilitatilor reprezentative pentru fiecare tip de...