• closedAccess   Countercyclical prudential buffers and bank risk-taking 

      Illueca, Manuel; Norden, Lars; Pacelli, Joseph; Udell, Gregory F. Elsevier (2022-01-31)
      We investigate the effects of countercyclical prudential buffers on bank risk-taking. We exploit the introduction of dynamic loan loss provisioning in Spain, mandating that banks use historical average loss rates in their ...