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 …

Central Bank’s policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The pass-through of the rate cuts to banks’ funding costs differs across the euro … provide a simple model of an augmented bank balance-sheet channel where in addition to costly external financing, there is …

Exploiting a granular dataset of banks' security holdings I assess the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bank … bank constant at its level in January 2014, well in advance of an anticipation of the ECB's asset purchase program (APP … data on bank-specific TLTRO uptakes, my results do not seem to be driven by alternative, liquidity-driven transmission …

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 …

lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank’s credit risk exposure … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its …

concerned about being induced to finance bad risk projects when conditions deteriorate. A monopoly bank provides the socially … schlechten Projekte zu finanzieren. Eine monopolistische Bank leistet die sozial-optimale Auswahl guter Risiken, aber die …