Crises, Rescues, and Policy Transmission Through International Banks

Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper Series 1: 15/2011

44 Pages Posted: 4 Jan 2013

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Claudia M. Buch

Deutsche Bundesbank

Catherine Casanova

SNB

Michael Koetter

Halle Institute for Economic Research

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Date Written: 2011

Abstract

The World Financial Crisis has shaken the fundamentals of international banking and triggered a downward spiral of asset prices. To prevent a further meltdown of markets, governments have intervened massively through rescues measures aimed at recapitalizing banks and through liquidity support. We use a detailed, bank level dataset for German banks to analyze how the lending and borrowing of their foreign affiliates has responded to domestic (German) and to US crisis support schemes. We analyze how these policy interventions have spilled over into foreign markets. We identify loan supply shocks by exploiting that not all banks have received policy support and that the timing of receiving support measures has differed across banks. We find that banks covered by rescue measures of the German government have increased their foreign activities after these policy interventions, but they have not expanded relative to banks not receiving support. Banks claiming liquidity support under the Term Auction Facility (TAF) program have withdrawn from foreign markets outside the US, but they have expanded relative to affiliates of other German banks.

Keywords: Cross-border banking, financial crisis, government support, Term Auction Facility

JEL Classification: G01, F34, G21

Suggested Citation

Buch, Claudia M. and Casanova, Catherine and Koetter, Michael, Crises, Rescues, and Policy Transmission Through International Banks (2011). Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper Series 1: 15/2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2195508 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2195508

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