Author(s): Ralph De Haas, Sergei Guriev, Alexander Stepanov Date: May 2022 Abstract: Does state ownership hinder or help firms access credit? We use data on almost 4 million firms in 89 countries to study the relationship between state ownership and corporate leverage. Controlling for country-sector-year fixed effects and conventional firm-level determinants of leverage, we show[…]
Author(s): Stefan Avdjiev, Tsvetana Spasova Date: May 2022 Abstract: We conduct a comprehensive empirical investigation of the link between inequality and financial openness. We document that the relationship varies considerably not only over time, but also across the main components of total external liabilities, which have been largely overlooked by the existing literature. In emerging[…]
Author(s): Marc Flandreau, Stefano Pietrosanti, Carlotta E. Schuster Date: May 2022 Abstract: During the hypothecation “mania” of 1849-1875, many sovereign borrowers relied on the posting of collateral such as, famously, Peruvian guano. But in fact, such “securities” could not be repossessed. To explain the puzzling phenomenon of sovereign hypothecation, which has a long history before[…]
Author(s): Ozge Akinci, Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, and Albert Queralto Date: May 2022 Abstract: Foreign investors’ changing appetite for risk-taking have been shown to be a key determinant of the global financial cycle. Such fluctuations in risk sentiment also correlate with the dynamics of UIP premia, capital flows, and exchange rates. To understand how these risk sentiment[…]
Author(s): Linda S. Goldberg and Fabiola Ravazzolo Date: April 2022 Abstract: In March 2020, the Federal Reserve eased the terms on its standing swap lines in collaboration with other central banks, reactivated temporary swap agreements, and then introduced the new Foreign and International Monetary Authorities (FIMA) repo facility. We provide new evidence on how the[…]
Author(s): Federico Cingano, Fadi Hassan Date: April 2022 Abstract: Using detailed bank-firm matched data, we study the impact of international financial flows on misallocation. We exploit a boom of capital inflows in Italy and identify the patterns of credit allocation by banks with different exposure to such boom. We find that exposed banks tilt credit[…]
Author(s): Viral V. Acharya, Matteo Crosignani, Tim Eisertm, and Sascha Steffen Date: April 2022 Abstract: This paper surveys the theory on zombie lending incentives and the consequences of zombie lending for the real economy. It also offers a historical perspective by reviewing the growing empirical evidence on zombie lending along three dimensions: (i) the role[…]
Author(s): Simona Malovaná, Martin Hodula, Zuzana Gric, Josef Bajzík Date: March 2022 Abstract: We surveyed experts from academia, central banks and other regulatory institutions on the preferred institutional setup of macroprudential policy and the underlying interactions stemming from the conduct of monetary and macroprudential policy. We find substantial support for the integration setup, under which[…]
Author(s): Iñaki Aldasoro, John Caparusso and Yingyuan Chen Date: February 2022 Abstract: Banks operate internationally through networks of branches and subsidiaries, also known as foreign banking offices (FBOs). Newly collected system- and entity-level data across two dozen host countries confirm stylised facts on these entities’ balance sheets and establish new ones. Subsidiaries, which resemble local[…]
Author(s): Iñaki Aldasoro, Sebastian Doerr and Haonan Zhou Date: March 2022 Abstract: Non-bank lenders are an important source of syndicated credit to non-financial corporates in most regions and industries. Their loan origination, however, is more concentrated by location and sector than that of banks and it is also more volatile. Syndicated loans arranged by non-banks[…]