Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank communicate with the public, and under what circumstances …

-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication —mostly empirical, and almost all of it … and powerful part of the central bank’s toolkit since it has the ability to move financial markets, to enhance the …

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 diminishthe informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators. We … indicators (i.e. size, liquidity and capitalization), traditionallyused in the bank lending channel literature to assess a bank …

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 …