Specialty Conference

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Specialty Conference

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Jan 2017

Financial institutions are key to allocate capital to its most productive uses. In order to examine the relationship between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping generations of entrepreneurs under complete and incomple...
Keywords: Bank Credit, Capital Allocation, productivity, Credit Constraints
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Specialty Conference

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Jan 2017

Using data on bank-firm relationships in Italy during the Eurozone financial crisis, we show that: (i) compared to healthy banks, under-capitalised banks cut credit to healthy but not to zombie firms and are more likely to prolong a credit relationship with a zombie; (ii) in area sectors with more l...
Keywords: bank capitalization, Zombie Lending, capital misallocation
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Specialty Conference

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Jan 2017

The paper assesses the overall consistency and impact on both the financial sector and the real economy, of the numerous banking regulations that have been introduced in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. For this purpose, we develop, within a multi-period asset framework, a large scale DS...
Keywords: Basel III, Solvency ratio, Liquidity ratios, Multi-period assets, Firms' heterogeneity
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Specialty Conference

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Jan 2017

After financial crises, GDP is typically persistently weak compared to pre-crisis trends. We build a simple competitive general equilibrium model to highlight role that the financial sector may have in boosting GDP to unsustainable, undesirable levels before financial crises. Allowing banks to freel...
Keywords: financial crises, GDP, trade, Loans, time-series
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Jan 2017

We analyze how two types of recently used prudential policies affected the supply of credit in the United States. First, we test whether the U.S. bank stress tests had any impact on the supply of mortgage credit. We find that initiation of the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) stress ...
Keywords: Bank stress tests, Jumbo mortgages, Leveraged lending, Macroprudential Policy, Syndicated loan market
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