the level of local bank concentration and bank capitalization. I find that banks operating in high-concentration markets …This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of … and under-capitalized banks adjust short-term lending rates more. I then build a theoretical model with heterogeneous …

This paper analyzes the effect of bank capital adequacy regulation on the monetary transmission mechanism. Using a … general equilibrium framework and a representative bank, the model demonstrates that the monetary transmission mechanism is … weakened if banks are poorly capitalized, or if the capital adequacy requirement is stringent. The paper also assesses the …

This paper examines the bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Malaysia, a country with a dual banking system … including both Islamic and conventional banks, over the period 1994:01-2015:06. A two-regime threshold vector autoregression … (TVAR) model is estimated to take into account possible nonlinearities in the relationship between bank lending and monetary …

Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …We analyze the effect of negative monetary policy rates on banks, using detailed supervisory information from … reserves exempt from negative rates. More affected banks reduce costly reserves and bond financing while maintaining non …

Using data for a large sample of banks from 31 OECD countries over 1995–2018, we analyze the impact of belonging to a … banking group on banks’ net interest margins. Our results confirm a positive relationship between interest rates and interest … margins, which is stronger in a low-interest rate environment. For banks belonging to an international banking group, we find …