in the GCC. We use bank-level panel data, exploiting variation across banks within countries, to isolate the impact of ….S. monetary policy to liability rates than to asset rates and bank profitability, largely reflecting funding structures. In … addition, we explore the role of shifts in the quantity of bank liabilities as policy rates change and the role of large banks …

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

In this paper, we investigate how negative interest rate policy (NIRP) introduced in January2016 by the Bank of Japan …

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 …

the determinants of bank interest margins using a sample of 456 banks in 41 SSA countries. The results show that market … concentration is positively associated with interest margins, but the impact depends on the level of efficiency of each bank. In … results also show that bank-specific factors such as credit risk, liquidity risk, and bank equity are important determinants …

curves and an inability to offer deposit rates significantly below zero combine to compress bank earnings in this environment …

In this paper, we use a bank-level panel dataset to investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the … extensions to assess the extent to which high spreads of banks in the CCA can be related to bank-specific variables, to … risk, bank size, bank diversification, banking sector competition, and macroeconomic policies; but the impact depends on …

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 …

In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one … and number three in the Norwegian bank market. Focusing on loans to firms, our difference-in-differences analysis shows no …