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Private information and lender discretion across time and institutions
(10.10.2018)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 17/2018
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 17/2018
We assess the extent to which discretion, unexplained variations in the terms of a loan contract, has varied across time and lending institutions and show that part of this discretion is due to private information that ...
Enforcement of banking regulation and the cost of borrowing
(18.10.2018)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 19/2018
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 19/2018
We show that borrowing firms benefit substantially from important enforcement actions issued on U.S. banks for safety and soundness reasons. Using hand-collected data on such actions from the main three U.S. regulators and ...
Did the Basel process of capital regulation enhance the resiliency of European Banks?
(27.09.2018)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 16/2018
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 16/2018
This paper analyses the evolution of the safety and soundness of the European banking sector during the various stages of the Basel process of capital regulation. In the first part we document the evolution of various ...
Russia's 1999–2000 election cycle and the politics-banking interface
(01.11.2017)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2017
BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2017
We investigate whether lending by the dominant Russian state bank, Sberbank, contributed to Vladimir Putin’s ascent to power during the presidential elections of March 2000. Our hypothesis is that Sberbank corporate loans ...
Growing like Germany : Local public debt, local banks, low private investment
(22.08.2022)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 9/2022
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 9/2022
Over 2010-2016, municipal debt in Germany crowded out private investment worth 1 percent of GDP. Forced to lend to municipalities by their statutes, local public banks compensated for declining municipal-debt yields by ...
Banks as corporate monitors: Evidence from CEO turnovers in China
(19.12.2016)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 19/2016
BOFIT Discussion Papers 19/2016
This paper examines the governance role of banks in replacement of underperforming CEOs in firms listed on Chinese stock exchanges. Under most circumstances, the findings suggest that the presence of outstanding loans ...
Disentangling loan demand and supply shocks in Russia
(05.03.2015)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2015
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2015
This article presents three alternative models for decomposing loan developments into components associated with changes in loan demand and supply fundamentals. Two models are based on macro data (error correction model ...
Bank instability: Interbank linkages and the role of disclosure
(14.07.2020)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 14/2020
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 14/2020
We study the impact of disclosure about bank fundamentals on depositors’ behavior in the presence (and absence) of economic linkages between financial institutions. Using a controlled laboratory environment, we identify ...
Are bank capital requirements optimally set? Evidence from researchers’ views
(02.06.2020)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 10/2020
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 10/2020
We survey 149 leading academic researchers on bank capital regulation. The median (average) respondent prefers a 10% (15%) minimum non-risk-weighted equity-to-assets ratio, which is considerably higher than the current ...
Precision of Public Information Disclosures, Banks’ Stability and Welfare
(04.03.2021)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 3/2021
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 3/2021
We study the optimal precision of public information disclosures about banks assets quality. In our model the precision of information affects banks' cost of raising funding and asset profile riskiness. In an imperfectly ...