of data on banks’ balance sheets, central banks and money market funds; on interest rates on deposits and loans; on non …

enterprises, as captured by the assessment of credit standards provided by the banks participating in the Eurosystem Bank Lending … Survey (BLS banks). For Italy, we combine the information provided by the relatively small panel of large banking groups … participating in the Eurosystem survey with the replies obtained from the non-overlapping and wider group of banks participating in …

Brothers demise to help banks retain access to wholesale funding. We describe the evolution and the pattern of bond issuance … new market, namely the significant �tiering� of the spreads paid by banks at issuance, finding that they mainly …

collusion. This paper tests the hypothesis for the Italian banking market, analysing the behaviour of the largest Italian banks … indicators, banks' costs and loan growth on variations in market shares and interest rates. …

subsidiaries for a representative sample fo nearly 2,500 OECD banks. …

by banks may provoke a soft budget constraint distortion, because large amounts of funds become available at relatively … premium is sufficienly high so as to detemine a positive probability that banks will default. This wxplains why crises occur …

The paper offers theoretical and empirical insights into the links between banks and firms in industrial districts ans …