banks. This paper provides empirical evidence on banks' responses to wholesale funding shocks, using data of seventeen of … the largest Dutch banks over the period January 2004 to April 2010. The dynamic interrelations among instruments of bank … that banks respond to a negative funding liquidity shock in a number of ways. First, banks reduce lending, especially …

This paper investigates the benefits of banks' direct investment in foreign subsidiaries and branches for non …-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host … the volume of FDI by home market banks boosts FDI by non-financial firms from the same home market. Domestic and third …

Traditional theory suggests that high franchise value limits bank risk-taking incentives. Then why did many banks with … paper attempts to reconcile theory and evidence. We consider a setup where a bank takes risk by levering up, to invest in … risky market-based instruments. High franchise value allows the bank to borrow more, so it can take risk on a larger scale …

When does the general public lose trust in banks? We provide empirical evidence using responses by Dutch survey …. Negative media reports, falling stock prices, and opaque product information also affect trust in banks. Experiencing a bank …

Banks supply payment services that underpin the smooth operation of the economy. To ensure an efficient payment system …-provided payment services. Billion dollar banks account for around ninety percent of assets in the US and those with around $4 to $7 … billion in assets turn out to be both the most and the least competitive in payment services, not the very largest banks. …

in 2013 and to analyze the interaction of capital regulation and banks' liquidity buffers. Our analysis suggests that …

The three main measures of competition (HHI, Lerner Index, and H-Statistic) are uncorrelated for U.S. banks. We …

banks. However if in extreme scenarios the LCR becomes a binding constraint, the interaction of bank behaviour with the …

policy to mitigate liquidity risk. We inspect the LTD trends and cycles of 11 euro area countries by filtering methods and … rules. One that stimulates banks to issue retail deposits in an upturn and one that incentivizes banks to create loanable …

downwards, which also increases the risk of a credit crunch. This effect is mitigated somewhat as provisions rise in times when … substantially higher when GDP growth is lower, reflecting increased riskiness of the credit portfolio when the business cycle turns …