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

How much deposits and equity a bank has influences how a banks’ lending responds to monetary policy. While the … responsiveness for the bank lending channel has been well established, this is not the case for the risk-taking channel (RTC). We …

.S. policies, and bank-specific heterogeneity influences the magnitudes of transmission. The effects are supportive of the … international bank lending channel and the portfolio channel of monetary policy transmission. They also show that the frictions that …. The forms of bank balance sheet heterogeneity that differentiate spillovers across banks are not uniform across countries …

This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of … the level of local bank concentration and bank capitalization. I find that banks operating in high-concentration markets … in local deposit and loan markets, along with bank capital requirements, lead to frictions on the pass-through to the …

indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of banks to the private sector. Second, we find support for the "bank … effect). The role of bank capital is, however, ambiguous. Besides the above favorable direct effect on loan supply, lower … levels of bank capitalization at the same time mitigate the size, retail and liquidity effects of the policies. The drag on …

Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary … type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank … using a model of bank risk-taking and securitization. …