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SUBMITTER: Ozlem Dursun-de Neef H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8579739 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Özlem Dursun-de Neef H H Schandlbauer Alexander A
Journal of banking & finance 20210702
This paper examines how European banks adjusted lending at the onset of the pandemic depending on their local exposure to the COVID-19 outbreak and capitalization. Using a bank-level COVID-19 exposure measure, we show that higher exposure to COVID-19 led to a relative increase in worse-capitalized banks' loans whereas their better-capitalized peers decreased their lending more. At the same time, only better-capitalized banks experienced a significantly larger increase in their delinquent and res ...[more]