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We study a large-scale quasi-experiment in the Brazilian banking sector characterized by an unexpected and macroeconomically relevant increase in lending by commercial government banks. Using credit registry data, we find that this intervention led to a reduction in lending rates, but it did not...
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This paper analyzes the impact of US firms’ equity risk on bank lending standards and on the macroeconomy for two … an increase in firm risk on bank lending standards and the economy are amplified in a recession compared to an expansion. … groups: small and medium-large firms. The results indicate that a higher level of firm risk leads to a higher percentage of …
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Financial markets are central to the transmission of uncertainty shocks. This paper documents a new aspect of the interaction between the two by showing that uncertainty shocks have radically different macroeconomic implications depending on the state financial markets are in when they occur....
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via the Fed balance sheet. Using bank-level data, we shed light on the role of leverage of banks for the transmission of …
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This paper studies the transmission of bank capital shocks to loan supply in Indonesia. A series of theoretically … aggregate lending. Likewise, the effects of bank recapitalization on loan growth depend on banks' starting capital positions and …
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Countercyclical bank capital requirements have emerged as a popular regulatory tool to help smooth financial cycles …. The idea is to reduce capital requirements when exogenous shocks cause aggregate bank capital to decrease so that …-consistent capital regulation requires that bank capital is rebuilt gradually during financial crises. In particular, banks must be able …
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The role of bank capital as a propagation channel of shocks is strongly pronounced in recent macroeconomic models. In … this paper, we show how the evolution of bank capital depends on the share of non-state-contingent assets in banks’ balance …
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understand systemic risk and to assess the stability of the banking system. In extreme scenarios, the system may experience a … phase transition when the consequences of one single initial shock affect the entire population. I show that the size and …
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supply shocks exceeds that of loan supply shocks. Since MBF is mostly provided by non-bank financial intermediaries, the …
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euro area firms allow studying the determinants of the external finance premium at the country, bank, firm, and contract … variance. The rest is predominantly attributed to variances at the bank and firm levels, which are influenced by the respective …
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