of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of … the German economy for the past 60 years. We find no evidence for a negative impact of bank capital on business loans …

unique data set that covers almost all bank-firm relationships in Italy in the period 2004-2013, we find that, during the …

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 …

A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow … faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth … and health status. We explore the influence of long-lasting bank relationships on employment and asset growth of a large …

' financial condition before and during the financial crisis. Employing unique data on the geographical location of all bank … branches in the UK, we connect firms' access to bank credit to the financial condition (i.e., bank health and the use of core … deposits) of all bank branches in the vicinity of the firm over the period 2004-2011. Before the crisis, banks' local financial …

loan from a fintech lender than a traditional bank. Among conventional lenders, smaller banks were much less likely to lend … to show that the disparity is not primarily explained by differences in pre-existing bank or credit relationships, firm …

absent in these markets. We introduce a dataset of 414 SME marketplace loans and 8,236 online loan days to test these …