The role of bank capital as a propagation channel of shocks is strongly pronounced in recent macroeconomic models. In … this paper, we show how the evolution of bank capital depends on the share of non-state-contingent assets in banks’ balance …

This paper studies how banks simultaneously manage the two sides of their balance sheet and its implications for bank … risk taking and real economic activity. First, we analyze how changes in funding affect the supply of bank loans. We then …

interest margin (NIM) and its components, retail lending and retail deposit rates. Using two proprietary bank-level data sets …

We study the implications of the Eurosystem's expanded Asset Purchase Programme (APP) for the bank lending business of … confidential bank-level data on quantitative balance sheet items and interest rates as well as on qualitative survey responses to … the Eurosystem's Bank Lending Survey, we identify the exposure of banks to the APP and corresponding effects on loan …

Using the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Locational Banking Statistics data on bilateral bank claims from … 1995 to 2014, we analyze the impact of monetary policy on cross-border bank flows. We find that monetary policy in a source … country is an important determinant of cross-border bank flows. In addition, we find evidence in favor of a cross …

Countercyclical bank capital requirements have emerged as a popular regulatory tool to help smooth financial cycles …. The idea is to reduce capital requirements when exogenous shocks cause aggregate bank capital to decrease so that …-consistent capital regulation requires that bank capital is rebuilt gradually during financial crises. In particular, banks must be able …