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

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 …

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 …

We present a simple neoclassical model to explore how an aggregate bank-capital requirement can be used as a … macroeconomic policy tool and how this additional tool interacts with monetary policy. Aggregate bank-capital requirements should be … banker. Second, setting aggregate bank-capital requirements is separated from monetary policy. -- central banks ; banking …

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 …

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 …

This paper examines the bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Malaysia, a country with a dual banking system … (TVAR) model is estimated to take into account possible nonlinearities in the relationship between bank lending and monetary …