one banking relationship as long as they account for only a small share of the total loan volume of their banks. The …

on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs … maximization and a sustainable provision of financial services to local customers. We find that banks with a public mandate are 25 … percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks …

After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a rapid and far-reaching shrinkage of international banks’ assets with a focus …

transforms existing financial claims against ultimate borrowers that have been originated by traditional banks. Based on … non-financial private sector had been originated by shadow banks. Consequently, dampening credit creation by the …

deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment. While the equity return performance in the banking sector has been dismal … in general, better capitalized and less leveraged banks have outperformed their peers, a finding that supports …

We use a unique data set that comprises each bank’s bids in the Eurosystem’s main refinancing operations and its … recourse to the LOLR facility (a) to derive banks’ willingness-to-pay for liquidity through a one-week repo and (b) to show … that a bank’s willingness-to-pay is a good indicator for the probability that this bank draws on the LOLR facility. Our …

We show that negative monetary policy rates induce systemic banks to reach-for-yield. For identification, we exploit … the 26 largest euro area banking groups. Banks with more customer deposits are negatively affected by negative rates, as … higher returns. Effects are stronger for less capitalized banks, private sector (financial and non-financial) securities and …

banks in the time period between 1995 and 2013, before the Basel III liquidity regulation to address excessive maturity …. Using a dataset that contains information on critical events of German banks, we find that financing loans using fewer … customer deposits would have been associated with a higher probability of financial distress for savings banks and credit …

highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take …