We classify a large sample of banks according to the geographic diversification of their international syndicated loan … most stable source of funding, while foreign banks with little diversification are the most fickle. Our findings suggest … portfolio. Our results show that diversified banks maintain higher loan supply during banking crises in borrower countries. The …

strength of the bank lending channel, recent evidence shows that bank-specific characteristics can have a large impact on the … provision of credit. We show that new factors, such as changes in banks' business models and market funding patterns, had … structural changes during the period of financial crisis. Banks with weaker core capital positions, greater dependence on market …

presented at the 2009 BIS annual conference focused on the role of banks and other financial institutions by analysing the role … construction. It reconsiders econometric methodology appropriate for designing better evidence-based central bank policy models …

: the internal rating systems -- Chapter 3) Credit guarantees: the role in bank lending -- Chapter 4) Banks, firms and …’s dynamics. Chapters discuss the role of bank lending in firms’ financing during the recent financial crisis, as well as issues … in credit risk management. The discussion also examines regulatory requirements impacting banks and firms (Basel III) and …

usefulness of the BIS international banking and financial statistics as a window on the financial system's procyclicality. We … shift in the pattern of credit intermediation from banks to bond markets …

types of bank capital affect bank lending and whether this relation changes in times of the global financial crisis. Chapter …Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The use of financial derivatives and risks of U.S. bank holding companies … -- Chapter 3 Quality of bank capital and bank lending behavior during the global financial crisis -- Chapter 4 Competition in the …

relationship banks gather information on their borrowers, which allows them to provide loans for profitable firms during a crisis …. Due to the services they provide, operating costs of relationship-banks are higher than those of transaction-banks. In our … model, where relationship-banks compete with transaction-banks, a key result is that relationship-banks charge a higher …