interest margin (NIM) and its components, retail lending and retail deposit rates. Using two proprietary bank-level data sets … market rates. As low profitability could hamper the ability of banks to expand lending, I also investigate the impact of the … NIM on new lending to the non-financial private sector. In general, the NIM is positively related to lending: When lending …

bonds at the expense of lending to the real sector. To quantify the effect of this distortion, we build a standard RBC model … policy makes the steady state lending spread on loans to firms decline, stimulating investment and output. Also, it … stabilises the lending spread, leading to a lower volatility of investment and output. …

This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available … and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank distress. Second, we control for a wide array of different time …

likelihood of bank distress makes banks reduce their on-balance sheet interest rate exposure and simultaneously intensify their …

methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the … growth rate of individual loans in our dataset is decomposed into bank, firm, industry and common shocks. Adverse bank shocks …

market. Furthermore, banks that participate in system-wide stress tests increase their capital ratios and shift lending to …

Several papers find a positive association between a bank's equity stake in a borrowing firm and lending to that firm …. While such a positive cross-sectional correlation may be due to equity stakes benefiting lending, it may also be driven by … the reform, many banks sold their equity stakes, but did not reduce lending to the firms. Thus, our findings question …