The countercyclical capital buffer and the composition of bank lending

Raphael Auer, Alexandra Matyunina, Steven Ongena

Do macroprudential regulations on residential lending influence commercial lending behavior too? To answer this question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential mortgages on which extra capital requirements were uniformly imposed by the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) introduced in Switzerland in 2012. We find that the CCyB's introduction led to higher growth in commercial lending although this was unrelated to conditions in regional housing markets. Interest rates and fees charged to the firms concurrently increased. We rationalize these findings in a model featuring both private and firm-specific collateral

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Year of publication:	2021
Authors:	Auer, Raphael A. ; Matyunina, Alexandra ; Ongena, Steven
Publisher:	Geneva : Swiss Finance Institute
Subject:	macroprudential policy \| spillovers \| credit \| bank capital \| systemic risk \| syndicated loan market \| Kreditgeschäft \| Bank lending \| Finanzmarktaufsicht \| Financial supervision \| Systemrisiko \| Systemic risk \| Spillover-Effekt \| Spillover effect \| Bankenliquidität \| Bank liquidity \| Kreditrisiko \| Credit risk \| Finanzkrise \| Financial crisis \| Kredit \| Credit \| Basler Akkord \| Basel Accord \| Eigenkapital \| Equity capital \| Kreditmarkt \| Credit market \| Bankenkrise \| Banking crisis \| Welt \| World