Exploiting confidential data on individual German bank balance-sheets, I analyse what characterises a bank that opts to … apply negative interest rates to corporate deposits. The results suggest that banks that are highly exposed to the negative … deposit rates. Furthermore, I examine whether banks adjusted their fee and commission strategy during the NIRP period and if …

-level financial statements for the 2004-2010 period together with the financial statements of each firm's relationship bank(s). We use … real economy. We investigate the importance of the bank lending and firm borrowing channel in the international … transmission of bank distress to the real economy - in particular, to real investment and labor employment by nonfinancial firms …

Central Bank’s policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The pass-through of the rate cuts to banks’ funding costs differs across the euro …This paper studies how banks’ balance sheets and funding costs interact in the transmission of monetary-policy rates to … banks’ credit supply to firms. To do so, we use credit-registry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European …

higher reliance on continental rather than Anglo-Saxon financing practices, and therefore increases dependence on banks …

We introduce a dynamic panel threshold model to shed new light on the impact of inflation on long-term economic growth …. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel-data set including 124 countries during the period from 1950 to 2004. For … industrialized countries, our results confirm the inflation targets of about 2% set by many central banks. For non …

in general, better capitalized and less leveraged banks have outperformed their peers, a finding that supports … policymakers’ efforts to strengthen bank capitalization. …