We provide evidence on the effect of the slope of the yield curve on economic activity through bank lending. Using … rates) boosts bank profits and the supply of bank loans. Intuitively, a higher term premium represents greater expected … profits on maturity transformation, which is at the core of banks’ business model, and therefore incentivizes bank lending …

contract their balance sheets. These bank responses generate externalities that propagate in the form of macro … macro-financial feedback loops can significantly affect macroeconomic outcomes and bank-specific stress tests results. The … heterogeneity in bank lending responses matters: it determines how each bank fares under adverse conditions and the external effects …

This study models the impact of new capital regulations proposed under Basel III on bank profitability by constructing … a stylized representative bank's financial statements. We show that the higher cost associated with a one … scheduled commercial banks, one-percentage point increase in capital ratio can be recovered by increasing the bank lending …

with bank-level data to study the contagion potential of an exogenous shock via credit and funding risks. We find that …-linear function of the combination of network structures and bank-specific characteristics …

orientation, pressures on funding models and entity structures could affect the efficiency of capital flows through the bank …