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We study the impact of higher capital requirements on banks' decisions to grant collateralized rather than uncollateralized loans. We exploit the 2011 EBA capital exercise, a quasi-natural experiment that required a number of banks to increase their regulatory capital but not others. This...
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smooths the impact of credit losses on profits and capital resources, reducing the procyclicality of capital and leverage …
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with endogenous financial frictions, driven by credit risk, bank losses and bank capital costs. These frictions induce … financial accelerator mechanisms and motivate the examination of a macroprudential toolkit. Following credit shocks …
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considerations influence credit allocation in a politically mature system like the United States without the formal possibility of …
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Recent empirical evidence on the cross-country synchronization of credit spreads in response to US monetary policy … shocks has led to the notion of an ‘international credit channel' of US monetary policy. This paper provides novel evidence … on the existence of an international credit channel for the transmission of US financial shocks across borders, and …
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prudential regulators are increasingly focused on early recognition of credit losses and enhanced disclosure. A common approach …
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prudential regulators are increasingly focused on early recognition of credit losses and enhanced disclosure. A common approach …
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find that credit booms, property price booms and wide current account deficits each pose material downside risks to growth …
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This paper examines how the interbank network structure influences banks’ credit supply to the real economy. Using the …
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Since Basel II was introduced in 2008, two approaches to calculating bank capital requirements have co-existed: lenders' internal models, and a less risk-sensitive standardised approach. Using a unique dataset covering 7 million UK mortgages for 2005–15, and novel identification, we provide...
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