Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92682 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 618
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
Constructing a strong and unique instrument for bank capital from the empirical observation of Japanese banks' past behavioral changes, we identify the impact of capital adequacy on the allocation of bank lending supply across low quality and high quality borrowers. We find that, in FY 1997, a large loss of capital resulting from the regulator's tougher stance against banks induced banks to rebalance their lending portfolio toward low quality borrowers. Our findings also suggest that the public recapitalization of banks in FY 1998 effectively helped banks abandon the assistance of such zombies.
Subjects: 
ever-greening
flight to quality
bank capital
instrumental variable
JEL: 
C21
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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