Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148361
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IWH Discussion Papers No. 33/2016
Publisher: 
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH), Halle (Saale)
Abstract: 
We study the impact of higher capital requirements on banks' balance sheets and its transmission to the real economy. The 2011 EBA capital exercise provides an almost ideal quasi-natural experiment, which allows us to identify the effect of higher capital requirements using a difference-in-differences matching estimator. We find that treated banks increase their capital ratios not by raising their levels of equity, but by reducing their credit supply. We also show that this reduction in credit supply results in lower firm-, investment-, and sales growth for firms which obtain a larger share of their bank credit from the treated banks.
Subjects: 
banking
regulation
real effects of finance
JEL: 
E22
E44
G21
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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