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We analyze the impact on lending standards of short-term interest rates and macroprudential policy before the 2008 crisis, and of the provision of central bank liquidity during the crisis. Exploiting the euro area institutional setting for monetary and prudential policy and using the Bank...
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Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of … European banks. In this paper, we evaluate the possible effects of these constraints on risk and diversification in the … analysis. We then analyse the risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the largest European banks and …
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We study both theoretically and empirically the inter- dependence of lending decisions in different country branches of a multinational bank. First, we model a bank that delegates the management of its foreign unit to a local manager with non-transferable skills. The bank differs from other...
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Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of … European banks. In this paper, we evaluate the possible effects of these constraints on risk and diversification in the … analysis. We then analyse the risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the largest European banks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838336
The results of this paper provide empirical evidence that regulatory capital ratios drive bank Credit Default Swaps (CDS) and that markets react more to changes in capital requirements if implemented via direct adjustments to Pillar 1 risk weights than imposed as a percentage of Risk-Weighted...
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We construct a novel measure of bank performance, investigate its determinants, and show that it affects bank resilience, lending behaviour and real outcomes. Using confidential and granular data, we measure performance against a market-based benchmark portfolio that mimics individual banks'...
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This paper evaluates the impact of the March 2020 European Central Bank recommendation that banks do not pay dividends or buy back shares on their market values. It documents a causal negative impact on bank share prices of around 7% during the two weeks following its announcement. The...
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We empirically investigated the impact of regulatory risk retention methods on credit ratings and pricing at issuance using a sample of European securitization tranches issued in the period 2011-2021. European regulation is based on the assumption that all risk retention methods homogenously...
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This paper evaluates the impact of the March 2020 European Central Bank recommenda-tion that banks do not pay dividends or buy back shares on their market values. It documents a causal negative impact on bank share prices of around 7% during the two weeks following its announcement. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254495
We empirically investigated the impact of regulatory risk retention methods on credit ratings and pricing at issuance using a sample of European securitization tranches issued in the period 2011-2021. European regulation is based on the assumption that all risk retention methods homogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014349343