Blar i Norges Banks vitenarkiv på emneord "banking"
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Banks as Multioutput Oligopolies: An Empirical Evaluation of the Retail and Corporate Banking Markets
(Working Papers;10/1994, Working paper, 1994)The distinction between retail and corporate banking markets is of much importance in real life banking organizations. The two markets differ with respect to concentration, the importance of informational asymmetries, and ... -
Banks’ Buffer Capital: How Important Is Risk?
(Working Papers;11/2003, Working paper, 2003)Most banks hold a capital to asset ratio well above the required minimum defined by the present capital adequacy regulation (Basel I). Using bank-level panel data from Norway, important hypotheses concerning the determination ... -
Countercyclical capital requirement reductions, state dependence and macroeconomic outcomes
(Working Paper;9/2020, Working paper, 2020)We use bank-, loan- and firm-level data together with a quasi-natural experiment to estimate the impact of capital requirement reductions on bank lending and real economic outcomes. We find that capital requirement reductions ... -
Endogenous Product Differentiation in Credit Markets: What Do Borrowers Pay For?
(Working Papers;8/2001, Working paper, 2001)This paper studies strategies pursued by banks in order to differentiate their services and soften competition. More specifically we analyse whether bank's ability to avoid losses, its capital ratio, or bank size can be ... -
What Determines Banks’ Market Power? Akerlof versus Herfindahl
(Working Papers;8/2005, Working paper, 2005)We introduce a model analyzing how asymmetric information problems in a bank-loan market may evolve over the age of a borrowing firm. The model predicts a life-cycle pattern for banks’ interest rate markup. Young firms pay ...