Bank Capital, Loan Liquidity, and Credit Standards since the Global Financial Crisis

Sarah Ngo Hamerling, Donald Morgan and John Sporn

No 20201021, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Did the 2007-09 financial crisis or the regulatory reforms that followed alter how banks change their underwriting standards over the course of the business cycle? We provide some simple, “narrative” evidence on that question by studying the reasons banks cite when they report a change in commercial credit standards in the Federal Reserve’s Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey. We find that the economic outlook, risk tolerance, and other real factors generally drive standards more than financial factors such as bank capital and loan market liquidity. Those financial factors have mattered more since the crisis, however, and their importance increased further as post-crisis reforms were phased in in the middle of the following decade.

Keywords: lending standards; credit cycle crisis; pro-cyclical; banks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-10-21
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