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Covered bonds, loan growth and bank funding: The Swiss experience since 1932
Author(s) -
Meuli Jonas,
Nellen Thomas,
Nitschka Thomas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.458
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-2362
pISSN - 1367-0271
DOI - 10.1111/infi.12380
Subject(s) - loan , financial system , bond , economics , balance sheet , financial crisis , sample (material) , finance , monetary economics , business , macroeconomics , chemistry , chromatography
The global financial crisis triggered discussions about what factors constitute a stable mortgage finance system. This paper contributes to these discussions by empirically analysing the Swiss mortgage finance system from a macroeconomic and banking sector balance sheet perspective. Our analysis is based on a novel and near‐comprehensive data set of mortgage bond (Swiss Pfandbrief) issuances over the sample period from 1932 to 2014. The empirical results suggest that growth in the volume of the Swiss Pfandbrief does not induce more loan growth than expected given the state of the economy and that compared with other bank refinancing activities, the Swiss Pfandbrief provides a stabilising source of funding.