on bank credit and as they represent the vast majority of the corporate sector reduced credit availability for those …-sized enterprises (SME). We measure the financing opportunities of SMEs based on the bank debt/assets ratio and the logarithmized credit … size and control both explicitly for bank mergers and for the increase in the average bank size in the course of the …

' potential adjustment strategies. We develop a dynamic model of bank lending behavior and simulate different regulatory … fluctuations affect capital requirements and bank lending? To what extent does the capital buffer absorb fluctuations in the level …

activities. This paper provides evidence on the link between monetary policy, commercial property prices, and bank risk taking …

address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks' responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

commonly used: central bank liquidity injections and asset swaps. I find that liquidity injections lead to a short run …

the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset extracted from Target2 and also exploit the Lehman and sovereign …

In this paper we relate a bank's choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …