IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ecb/ecbmbu/202100132.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evaluating the benefits of euro area dividend distribution recommendations on lending and provisioning

Author

Listed:
  • Dautović, Ernest
  • Ponte Marques, Aurea
  • Reghezza, Alessio
  • Rodriguez d’Acri, Costanza
  • Martín, Diego Vila
  • Wildmann, Nadya

Abstract

This article studies the impact of the ECB’s dividend recommendations on banks’ lending and loss-absorption capacity during the COVID-19 crisis. It finds that the policy has been effective in mitigating the potential procyclical adjustment of banks. Banks that did not distribute previously planned dividends increased their lending by around 2.4% and their provisions by approximately 5.5%, thus strengthening their capacity to absorb losses. Notably, the recommendations appear to have mitigated the procyclical behaviour of banks closer to the threshold for automatic restrictions on distributions. Overall, the recommendations were successful in conserving capital and helping the banking system support the real economy and facilitate the recognition of future losses. JEL Classification: E51, E58, G21, G35, G28

Suggested Citation

  • Dautović, Ernest & Ponte Marques, Aurea & Reghezza, Alessio & Rodriguez d’Acri, Costanza & Martín, Diego Vila & Wildmann, Nadya, 2021. "Evaluating the benefits of euro area dividend distribution recommendations on lending and provisioning," Macroprudential Bulletin, European Central Bank, vol. 13.
    • Handle: RePEc:ecb:ecbmbu:2021:0013:2
    Note: 2777855
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.ecb.europa.eu//pub/financial-stability/macroprudential-bulletin/html/ecb.mpbu202106_2~90dc75f42d.en.html
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dautović, Ernest & Gambacorta, Leonardo & Reghezza, Alessio, 2023. "Supervisory policy stimulus: evidence from the euro area dividend recommendation," Working Paper Series 2796, European Central Bank.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    banks; capital buffers; Covid-19 crisis; Dividend recommendations; lending; loss-absorption; risk-taking;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G35 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Payout Policy
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ecb:ecbmbu:2021:0013:2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Official Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/emieude.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.