Authors:

  • Tom Zimmermann

Excerpt

Fiscal Consolidations and Bank Balance Sheets. Tom Zimmermann, February 2013, Paper. "We empirically investigate the effects of fiscal policy on bank balance sheets, focusing on episodes of fiscal consolidation. To this aim, we employ a very large data set of individual banks' balance sheets, combined with a newly compiled data set on fiscal consolidations. We find that standard capital adequacy ratios such as the Tier-1 ratio tend to improve following episodes of fiscal consolidation. Our results suggest that this improvement results from a portfolio re-balancing from private to public debt securities which reduces..." Link verified March 28, 2014