This paper studies how banks simultaneously manage the two sides of their balance sheet and its implications for bank … risk taking and real economic activity. First, we analyze how changes in funding affect the supply of bank loans. We then …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of monetary policy on bank lending in a low interest rate environment. Based on a … less effective in stimulating bank lending growth when rates reach a very low level. This result holds after controlling … for business and financial cycle conditions and different bank-specific characteristics such as liquidity, capitalisation …

This paper investigates the bank lending-channel of monetary policy (MP) surprises. To identify the effects of MP … this high-frequency identification strategy to comprehensive and matched bank-firm data from Brazil. The results are robust … across financial intermediaries, e.g. bank capital, are relevant. Firms connected to stronger banks mitigate about one third …

We investigate global factors associated with bank capital flows. We formulate a model of the international banking … system where global banks interact with local banks. The solution highlights the bank leverage cycle as the determinant of …

Using the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Locational Banking Statistics data on bilateral bank claims from … 1995 to 2014, we analyze the impact of monetary policy on cross-border bank flows. We find that monetary policy in a source … country is an important determinant of cross-border bank flows. In addition, we find evidence in favor of a cross …

One aim of post-crisis monetary policy has been to ease credit conditions for borrowers by unlocking bank lending. We … find that bank equity is an important determinant of both the bank's funding cost and its lending growth. In a cross …-country bank-level study, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the equity-to-total assets ratio is associated with a 4 …

Countercyclical bank capital requirements have emerged as a popular regulatory tool to help smooth financial cycles …. The idea is to reduce capital requirements when exogenous shocks cause aggregate bank capital to decrease so that …-consistent capital regulation requires that bank capital is rebuilt gradually during financial crises. In particular, banks must be able …

The paper employs a unique identification strategy that links survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank …-level data in order to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consumption expenditures …