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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Banks response to higher capital requirements: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Reint Gropp
  • Thomas Mosk
  • Carlo Wix
  • Steven Ongena
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Review of Financial Studies
Publisher Oxford University Press
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0893-9454
Volume 32
Number 1
Page Range 266 - 299
Date 2019
Abstract Text We study the impact of higher capital requirements on banks’ balance sheets and its transmission to the real economy. The 2011 EBA capital exercise is an almost ideal quasi-natural experiment to identify this impact with a difference-in-differences matching estimator. We find that treated banks increase their capital ratios by reducing their risk-weighted assets and - consistent with debt overhang - not by raising their levels of equity. Banks reduce lending to corporate and retail customers, resulting in lower asset-, investment- and sales growth for firms obtaining a larger share of their bank credit from the treated banks.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1093/rfs/hhy052
Other Identification Number merlin-id:16245
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