Pandemic lending: micro and macro effects of model-based regulation

  • When the COVID-19 crisis struck, banks using internal-rating based (IRB) models quickly recognized the increase in risk and reduced lending more than banks using a standardized approach. This effect is not driven by borrowers’ quality or by banks in countries with credit booms before the pandemic. The higher risk sensitivity of IRB models does not always result in lower credit provision when risk intensifies. Certain features of the IRB models – the use of a downturn Loss Given Default parameter – can increase banks’ resilience and preserve their intermediation capacity also during downturns. Affected borrowers were not able to fully insulate and decreased corporate investments.

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Author:Franco FiordelisiORCiDGND, Giulia Fusi, Angela MaddaloniGND, David Marqués IbáñezGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-701187
URL:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4307670
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4307670
Parent Title (German):SAFE working paper ; No. 374
Series (Serial Number):SAFE working paper (374)
Publisher:SAFE
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2022
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2023/01/02
Tag:Banks; COVID-19; Lending; Model-based regulation; Supervision
Issue:December 2022
Page Number:71
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / House of Finance (HoF)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe (SAFE)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
JEL-Classification:G Financial Economics / G2 Financial Institutions and Services / G21 Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
G Financial Economics / G2 Financial Institutions and Services / G28 Government Policy and Regulation
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht