We document the development of the major international banks since the late 1990s, analysing balance-sheet data for 27 …, revealed all its shortcomings when the crisis erupted. European banks displayed greater fragilities in their business models …

bank-lending channel and in which the spread between lending and policy rates endogenously depends on banks' leverage. The …

tightening of credit conditions. We mainly focus on lending to small Italian firms that rely almost exclusively on banks’ credit …

(deterioration risk). Low fundamental risk of assets guarantees benevolent funding conditions and banks are able to expand their …

banks in the sample, according to their systemic importance scores. The methodology is then applied to EU and Eurozone … samples of banks to obtain their systemic importance ranking and SIFI lists. This is one of the first methodologies capable of … identifying systemically relevant banks at the European level. A statistical analysis and some geographical and historical …