-world developments have spawned a huge newscholarly literature on central bank communicationmostly 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 …

stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products … pass-through of market rates to bank interest rates, we likewise find that banks tend to price their loans more in … stronger, we observe larger bank spreads (implying lower bank interest rates) on current account and time deposits. This would …

advantage drives banks to seek out specific markets. Using detailed, bilateral data of bank ownership for a large number of …

Measuring bank performance solely on the basis of profitability conveys significant information about past performance …

by assessing the relation between bank size and market power. We use an extended version of the Panzar-Rosse (P-R) model … that allows bank size to affect market power. Based on a large sample of more than 18,000 banks in 101 countries comprising … more than 112,000 bank-year observations, we show that market power varies with bank size. Large banks have substantially …

indicates that the reduction in bank lending during the crisis was at least partly caused by stricter bank screening and …

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 …