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 …

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 …

types of long-term debt securities. By investigating at the individual bank level, we are able to test explicitly a broad … country and bank-specific financial characteristics as explanatory variables. With respect to the country determinants, our … bond issuance, while for banks from the euro area periphery central bank liquidity substituted for unsecured long-term debt …