an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …

banking sectors to domestic government debt, thus strengthening or weakening the sovereign-bank nexus. To do so, we construct … banks' exposure to domestic sovereign bonds in the periphery countries and thus deepens the sovereign-bank nexus. By …

holdings in response to non-standard monetary policy shocks, thereby possibly promoting the sovereign-bank nexus, i.e. the …

safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …

standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding is that the pass through from changes in the money market rate to … retail bank rates became significantly less complete during the crisis. Model simulations show that this result can be well …

conditions, credit default and bank capitalization for the transmission of macroeconomic shocks. We fit the model to euro area … empirical literature, i.e. the pro-cyclicality of bank profitability and the counter-cyclical response of firm default rates and …