We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … identification, the analysis focuses on the euro area, thereby exploiting substantial bank and country heterogeneity within a … monetary union where the central bank has implemented a broad range of unconventional policies, including quantitative easing …

-run supply of bank credit. As U.S. bond rates have fallen, the pass-through of monetary shocks to loan and deposit rates has … weakened while the spread on U.S. bank loans has risen. I build a model in which banks earn deposit and loan spreads, deposits … dampened at low rates, because deposit spreads act as a better hedge for bank equity against unexpected monetary shocks. In the …

Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …

how the transmission depends on bank balance sheets, and how this changes once policy rates become negative. We review the …

should more closely match the risk characteristics of loans and deposits. For the euro area, imputed bank output is, on …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … public finances. Regimes for restructuring and restoring banks financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops seek to reduce … these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and increase the costs of leverage. This paper evaluates the …

An entrepreneur chooses a relationship bank or market finance. The advantage of bank finance is that the quality of the … that the bank continues inefficient projects, i.e., zombie lending occurs. In the short run - for a given contract - a drop … in the market interest rate increases zombification. The bank adapts the contract to this drop in the long run, and …