We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …

. In our model, producers are financed by both bank debt and equity, and face a mix of systematic and idiosyncratic … macroprudential policy is represented by a convex dependence of bank capital requirements on the quantity of uncollateralized credit …