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. …

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

enterprises, as captured by the assessment of credit standards provided by the banks participating in the Eurosystem Bank Lending … the Regional Bank Lending Survey (non-BLS banks) carried out by the Bank of Italy. We find evidence of a limited upward … restriction for the non-BLS banks. The Eurosystem Bank Lending Survey, therefore, continues to be a timely and important source of …

This paper tests the role of different banks� liquidity funding structures in explaining the bank failures that …

We examine the effects of the government guarantee schemes for bank bonds adopted in the aftermath of the Lehman … 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 …