, severely hit by the Eurozone crisis. NIRP has expansionary effects on credit supply-- -and hence the real economy---through a …

The ECB has taken a range of actions to address bank funding problems, eliminate excessive risk in sovereign markets …

This paper analyzes the drivers of cross-border bank lending to 49 Emerging Markets (EMs) during the period 1990Q1 … literature has traditionally highlighted the influence of US monetary policy on driving cross-border bank flows, and more … decrease in bank leverage, our results indicate a broad-based overall contraction of cross-border lending if the shock …

The paper focuses on the impact of diversification on bank performance and how consolidation through mergers and … indigenous banks, as compared to foreign competitors in the ECCU. We then simulate bank mergers both within and across ECCU … countries by combining individual banks' balance sheets. The simulation shows that a typical indigenous bank could better …