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The risk-taking channel of monetary policy in the US : Evidence from corporate loan data
(07.08.2017)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 18/2017
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 18/2017
To study the presence of a risk-taking channel in the US, we build a comprehensive dataset from the syndicated corporate loan market and measure monetary policy using different measures, most notably Taylor (1993) and Romer ...
Bond finance, bank credit, and aggregate fluctuations in an open economy
(05.08.2016)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 22/2016
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 22/2016
Corporate sectors in emerging markets have noticeably increased their reliance on foreign financing, presumably reflecting low global interest rates. The evidence also shows a rebalancing from bank loans towards bonds. To ...
Social capital and debt contracting : evidence from bank loans and public bonds
(20.11.2015)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 21/2015
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 21/2015
We find that firms headquartered in U.S. counties with higher levels of social capital incur lower bank loan spreads. This finding is robust to using organ donation as an alternative social-capital measure and incremental ...
Model-based regulation and firms' access to finance
(15.02.2019)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 4/2019
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 4/2019
This paper investigates the impact of the model-based approach to bank capital regulation (i.e. the Internal Ratings Based Approach; IRBA) on firms' access to finance. A difference-in-differences methodology is used given ...
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 ...
Uncertainty shocks and firm dynamics : Search and monitoring in the credit market
(23.11.2017)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 34/2017
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 34/2017
We develop a business cycle model with gross flows of firm creation and destruction.The credit market is characterized by two frictions. First,entrepreneurs undergo a costly search for intermediate funding to create a firm. ...
Who funds zombie firms : banks or non-banks?
(09.02.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 2/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 2/2023
Analyses of zombie firms have emphasised the role of bank financing as the reason for zombie survival. This conclusion was made despite no comparative analysis of the sources of external finance for zombie firms. This paper ...
Monetary policy transmission below zero
(27.06.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 11/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 11/2023
This study considers the pass-through of different ECB monetary policy measures to bank corporate lending rates of different maturities during 2010–2020. We find changes in the pass-through as policy rates first dip below ...
Public funding of banks and firms in a time of crisis
(27.06.2022)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 8/2022
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 8/2022
We study public funding of banks and non-financial firms in a time of crisis. We find that bank capitalization is more effective in stabilizing the economy than direct funding to firms, but it also creates larger distortions. ...