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

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 …

about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making … interest rates per se. This paper uses a large micro level data set of the German bank universe to examine how banks behave in … this uncharted territory. The evidence found suggests that bank's business model, i.e. the share of overnight deposits …

address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks' responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

We study sovereign bond yields in OECD countries with a dynamic panel by checking for cross-section dependence …; assessing panel cointegration; and estimating panel error-correction models. The results show that markets consider budgetary … and external imbalances and inflation as relevant determinants of sovereign yields. -- long-term yields ; panel …

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 …

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 …”. In a panel of US banks, we find strong evidence in support of our model for various risk measures. …