(When) Do Banks React to Anticipated Capital Reliefs?

32 Pages Posted: 18 Mar 2022

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Guillaume Arnould

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES); Bank of England

Benjamin Guin

Bank of England

Steven Ongena

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

Paolo Siciliani

Bank of England

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Abstract

We study how banks react to policy announcements during the representative policy cycle of consultation and policy publication. We use unique data covering the population of all mortgage transactions in the UK complemented with regulatory risk assessments of banks and their supervisory interactions. We show that banks likely to benefit from lower capital requirements increase the size of this capital relief by permanently investing into low-risk assets after the publication of the policy. Within this group, those banks with a higher frequency of supervisory interactions already react to the first step of policy development, the publication consultation. We show how these results can be used to estimate a lower bound on the cost of capital for smaller banks, for which such estimates are typically difficult to obtain.

Keywords: Bank Regulation, Mortgage Lending, Supervisory Review Process, Capital Requirements

Suggested Citation

Arnould, Guillaume and Arnould, Guillaume and Guin, Benjamin and Ongena, Steven R. G. and Siciliani, Paolo, (When) Do Banks React to Anticipated Capital Reliefs?. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4061011 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4061011

Guillaume Arnould

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