Sharing the Pain? Credit Supply and Real Effects of Bank Bail-Ins

55 Pages Posted: 22 May 2017

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Thorsten Beck

City University London - The Business School; Tilburg University - European Banking Center, CentER

Samuel Da-Rocha-Lopes

Nova School of Business and Economics; Aarhus University; European Banking Authority

André F. Silva

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Date Written: May 2017

Abstract

We analyze the credit supply and real sector effects of bank bail-ins by exploiting the unexpected failure of a major bank in Portugal and its subsequent resolution. Using a unique dataset of matched firm-bank data on credit exposures and interest rates from the Portuguese credit register, we show that while banks more exposed to the bail-in significantly reduced credit supply after the shock, affected firms were able to compensate this credit contraction with other sources of funding, including new lending relationships. Although there was no loss of external funding, we observe a moderate tightening of credit conditions as well as lower investment and employment at firms more exposed to the intervention, particularly SMEs. We explain the latter real effects by higher precautionary cash holdings due to increased uncertainty.

Keywords: Bail-ins, bank failures, credit supply, employment, investment

JEL Classification: E22, E24, E58, G01, G21, G28, G32

Suggested Citation

Beck, Thorsten and Da-Rocha-Lopes, Samuel and Silva, André F., Sharing the Pain? Credit Supply and Real Effects of Bank Bail-Ins (May 2017). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12058, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2971979

Thorsten Beck (Contact Author)

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Samuel Da-Rocha-Lopes

Nova School of Business and Economics ( email )

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André F. Silva

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