Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154078 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1645
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper presents evidence that banks react to regulation in a forward-looking manner. A case study documents a reaction to Basel II as early as 2000, in other words about seven years prior to the implementation of the regulation in 2007. Based on the initial information released on Basel II, banks loosened their credit policies towards households. The changes were substantial, improving household credit availability by 20-50%. A new approach to estimate borrowing constraints from loan samples is also presented.
Subjects: 
bank regulation
borrowing constraints
credit policy
JEL: 
D14
E32
E51
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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