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-differences strategy for a comparable sample of banks. We find that banks participating in the stress tests reallocate credit away from …
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We study the impact of macroprudential capital buffers on banking groups' lending and risk-taking decisions, also investigating implications for internal capital markets. For identification, we exploit heterogeneity in buffers applied to other systemically important institutions, using...
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Multiple lending has been widely investigated from both an empirical and a theoretical perspective. Nevertheless, the implications of multiple lending for the stability of the banking system still need to be understood. By lending to a common set of borrowers, banks are interconnected and then...
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Loan guarantees represent a form of government intervention to support bank lending. However, their use raises concerns as to their effect on bank risk-taking incentives. In a model of •nancial fragility that incorporates bank capital and a bank incentive problem, we show that loan guarantees...
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This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk-taking associated with the introduction of the Basel III Leverage Ratio. This is addressed in both a theoretical and empirical setting. Using a theoretical micro model, we show that a...
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aggressive on their loan pricing practices. This suggests that securitization activity lead to laxer credit standards …
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effect of the reforms on overall credit supply, while at the same time documenting a substantial decline in borrower- and …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the main drivers of the change in the credit risk provisions at a portfolio … drivers of the three-year projections of credit losses. First, we define a model containing all the macroeconomic variables … variables. Our results show that, although EBA variables explain most part of credit risk provisions, we obtain evidence about …
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Following the financial crisis, the share of non-performing loans has significantly increased, while the regulatory guidelines on the Internal-Ratings Based (IRB) approach for capital adequacy calculation related to defaulted exposures remains too general. As a result, the high-risk nature of...
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This paper illustrates that systemically important banks reduce a range of activities at year-end, leading to lower additional capital requirements in the form of G-SIB buffers. The effects are stronger for banks with higher incentives to reduce the indicators, and for banks with balance sheet...
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