TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of COVID-19 and bank capital ratio on loan changes of ASEAN-5’s banking industry
AU - Hukom, Michael Abraham
AU - Lubis, Arief Wibisono
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was made possible with the support of a research grant by Universitas Indonesia number NKB-533/UN2.RST/HKP.05.00/2022.
Publisher Copyright:
© Michael Abraham Hukom, Arief Wibisono Lubis, 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has affected economies around the world, including the banking industry, and this depends on various factors. The aim of this study is to understand the influence of COVID-19 independently and through the moderation of bank capital ratios on changes in loans of Association of Southeast Asian Nations 5 (ASEAN-5) banking industry players. The study uses a sample of 86 banking companies listed on the stock markets of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand from the first quarter of 2018 to the fourth quarter of 2020 by employing the panel data regression technique. The results showed that COVID-19 had a significant negative effect on changes in bank lending. However, a bank’s capital ratio was not found to play a role in moderating the effect of COVID-19 on changes in bank lending. These findings have three main implications: (i) the role of the government in recapitalization and liquidity injection can eliminate differences in behavior between banks with the classification of capital ratios; (ii) there are no signs of zombie lending in ASEAN-5’s banking industry; and (iii) regulating incentives to change bank lending behavior in future crises must take into account that bank capital categorization will not be effective.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has affected economies around the world, including the banking industry, and this depends on various factors. The aim of this study is to understand the influence of COVID-19 independently and through the moderation of bank capital ratios on changes in loans of Association of Southeast Asian Nations 5 (ASEAN-5) banking industry players. The study uses a sample of 86 banking companies listed on the stock markets of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand from the first quarter of 2018 to the fourth quarter of 2020 by employing the panel data regression technique. The results showed that COVID-19 had a significant negative effect on changes in bank lending. However, a bank’s capital ratio was not found to play a role in moderating the effect of COVID-19 on changes in bank lending. These findings have three main implications: (i) the role of the government in recapitalization and liquidity injection can eliminate differences in behavior between banks with the classification of capital ratios; (ii) there are no signs of zombie lending in ASEAN-5’s banking industry; and (iii) regulating incentives to change bank lending behavior in future crises must take into account that bank capital categorization will not be effective.
KW - bank
KW - capital ratio
KW - COVID-19
KW - crisis
KW - exposure
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149043433&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.21511/bbs.18(1).2023.07
DO - 10.21511/bbs.18(1).2023.07
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85149043433
SN - 1816-7403
VL - 18
SP - 77
EP - 90
JO - Banks and Bank Systems
JF - Banks and Bank Systems
IS - 1
ER -