This paper analyzes the determinants of spreads on syndicated bank lending to emerging markets, treating the loan … interpretation of bank finance as dominating that segment of international financial markets characterized by the most pronounced …

experience of the United States during the Great Depression, a period of intense bank distress, to conduct our analysis. We … availability as indicated by the survey. A number of scholars have posited different ways that bank distress constrained credit …. In this study, we find that bank failures had the most dominant impact, but there is also some evidence for the …

We exploit variation in commercial bank capital ratios across states to identify the impact of commercial bank balance … indicate a lack of substitutes for bank funding both in the short and long run. This lack of substitutes implies a notable … highlight the potential effects that bank balance sheet pressures, for example, from tightening capital adequacy standards, such …

Because they engage in maturity transformation, a steepening of the yield curve should, all else equal, boost bank … profitability. We re-examine this conventional wisdom by estimating the reaction of bank intraday stock returns to exogenous … repricing time or maturity of bank assets and liabilities and analyze how the reaction of stock returns varies with the size of …

lending is economically significant. The mechanism of the transmission appears to be through changes in bank capital and new …

This paper investigates how monetary policy affects bank profitability. We use data for 109 large international banks … short-term rates and the slope of the yield curve (the "interest rate structure", for short), on the one hand, and bank … that, over time, unusually low interest rates and an unusually flat term structure erode bank profitability …