Banking supervision, monetary policy and risk-taking: Big data evidence from 15 credit registers

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We analyse the effects of supranational versus national banking supervision on credit supply, and its interactions with monetary policy. For identification, we exploit: (i) a new, proprietary dataset based on 15 European credit registers; (ii) the institutional change leading to the centralisation of European banking supervision; (iii) high-frequency monetary policy surprises; (iv) differences across euro area countries, also vis-à-vis non-euro area countries. We show that supranational supervision reduces credit supply to firms with very high ex-ante and ex-post credit risk, while stimulating credit supply to firms without loan delinquencies. Moreover, the increased risk-sensitivity of credit supply driven by centralised supervision is stronger for banks operating in stressed countries. Exploiting heterogeneity across banks, we find that the mechanism driving the results is higher quantity and quality of human resources available to the supranational supervisor rather than changes in incentives due to the reallocation of supervisory responsibility to the new institution. Finally, there are crucial complementarities between supervision and monetary policy: centralised supervision offsets excessive bank risk-taking induced by a more accommodative monetary policy stance, but does not offset more productive risk-taking. Overall, we show that using multiple credit registers - first time in the literature - is crucial for external validity.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-899-3992-8
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2349

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers ; Monetary Policy ; Central Banks and Their Policies ; Financial Crises ; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages ; Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
• Thema: Supervision ; banking ; AnaCredit ; monetary policy ; euro area crisis

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Altavilla, Carlo ; Boucinha, Miguel ; Peydró, José-Luis ; Smets, Frank
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European Central Bank (ECB)
• (wo): Frankfurt a. M.
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.2866/213525
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228227
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ