Did pre-crisis mortgage lending limit post-crisis corporate lending? Evidence from UK bank balance sheets

Lu Zhang (), Arzu Uluc and Dirk Bezemer ()
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Lu Zhang: Sustainable Finance Lab, The Netherlands., Postal: Sustainable Finance Lab, The Netherlands.
Dirk Bezemer: Global Economics and Management, University of Groningen, The Netherlands., Postal: Global Economics and Management, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

No 651, Bank of England working papers from Bank of England

Abstract: Was the bank credit crunch following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 in many economies due to a loan supply collapse or to a decrease in loan demand? This paper investigates the effects of UK banks’ pre-crises exposure to residential property markets on their post-crisis business lending to explore the existence of a negative post-crisis loan supply shock. We isolate the loan supply effect from a loan demand effect by using a unique quasi-experimental setting and a rich, tailor-made micro-level data set on bank lending volumes, bank balance sheets and mortgage loan characteristics. Controlling for a range of bank-specific factors, we find that banks with larger shares of residential mortgages in total loans in 2008 Q2 reduced their lending to business more after 2008 Q3. Post-crisis lending to business is also sensitive to the riskiness of banks’ mortgage portfolios. Banks having more mortgages to borrowers with impaired credit history, or more mortgages to the self-employed, or mortgages with higher loan to value ratios prior to the crisis reduced their lending to non-financial businesses more.

Keywords: Credit crunch; bank balance sheets; mortgage lending; micro data; United Kingdom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E20 E32 E51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2017-03-03
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