Bank Capital (Requirements) and Credit Supply: Evidence from Pillar 2 Decisions

60 Pages Posted: 17 Apr 2019

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Olivier De Jonghe

Tilburg University - Department of Finance; National Bank of Belgium - Research Department; Tilburg University - European Banking Center

Hans Dewachter

Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) - Department of Economics; Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

Steven Ongena

University of Zurich - Department Finance; Swiss Finance Institute; KU Leuven; NTNU Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: March 17, 2019

Abstract

We analyze how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements affect bank lending to the non-financial corporate sector as well as banks' balance sheet adjustments. To do so, we relate Pillar 2 capital requirements to a comprehensive corporate credit register coupled with bank and firm balance sheet data. Our analysis consists of three components. First, we investigate how capital requirements affect the supply of bank credit to the corporate sector, both on the intensive and extensive margin, as well as for different types of credit. Subsequently, we document how bank and firm characteristics as well as the stance of monetary policy impact the relationship between bank capital requirements and the supply of credit. Finally, we examine how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements affect banks' balance sheet composition.

Keywords: capital requirements, credit supply, credit register, bank regulation

JEL Classification: G01, G21, G28, L5

Suggested Citation

De Jonghe, Olivier and De Jonghe, Olivier and Dewachter, Hans and Ongena, Steven R. G., Bank Capital (Requirements) and Credit Supply: Evidence from Pillar 2 Decisions (March 17, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3356726 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3356726

Olivier De Jonghe (Contact Author)

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Steven R. G. Ongena

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