This study contributes to the empirical evidence on the lending channel in the Netherlands using individual bank data … the lending channel theory. A contribution of this study is that it gives evidence that the monetary policy impact on bank … lending also depends on the market segment in which a bank is active. The evidence suggests that the lending channel is not …

interaction between business cycles and bank behaviour over the past two decades for 26 industrial countries. As expected, profits …

created by unsound loan loss provisioning. This paper investigates how bank provisioning behaviour is related to the business … cycle, using 8,000 bank-year observations from 29 OECD countries over the past decade. Provisioning turns out to be …

created by unsound loan loss provisioning. This paper investigates how bank provisioning behaviour is related to the business … cycle, using 8,000 bank-year observations from 29 OECD countries over the past decade. Provisioning turns out to be …

Do tightenings of bank lending standards permanently reduce bank lending? We construct a measure of a bank's level of … lending standards using micro-data from the sample of banks participating in the Eurosystem Bank Lending Survey in The … relevant; a one point tightening reduces a bank's quarterly growth rate of business lending by about half a percentage point …

1995 to 2012. The estimated CCI has a high correlation with the Bank Lending Survey, a quarterly survey in which banks are …

This paper argues that a special bank bankruptcy regime is desirable for the efficient restructuring and/or liquidation … to better mitigate disruptions in the financial system and minimize the social costs of bank distress. We compare the U ….S., UK, and German bank bankruptcy frameworks and describe the EU framework for cross-border bank bankruptcy. We support our …

We examine whether Fitch support ratings of US banks depend on bank size. Using quarterly data for the period 2004:Q4 … to 2012:Q4 and controlling for several factors that make large and small banks different, we find that bank size is …