banks’ credit supply to firms. To do so, we use credit-registry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European … Central Bank’s policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The pass-through of the rate cuts to banks’ funding costs differs across the euro …’ financing constraints matter less for the supply of credit and there is more risk taking. To rationalize these findings, we …

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 …’ balance sheets attenuate the amplification of shocks resulting from financial frictions in the banking sector. …

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

How does a shock to the liquidity of bank assets affect credit supply, cross-border lending, and real activity at the … firm level? We exploit that, in 2007, the European Central Bank replaced national collateral frameworks by a single list …. This collateral framework shock added loans to non-domestic euro area firms to the pool of eligible assets. Using loan …

This paper examines the relationship between central bank funding and credit risk-taking. Employing comprehensive bank …-firm-level data from the German credit registry during 2009:Q1-2014:Q4, we find that borrowing from the central bank is associated … with rebalancing of bank portfolios towards ex-ante riskier firms. We further establish that this relationship is …

We consider a standard banking model with agency frictions to simultaneously studythe weakening and reversal of …

restrictive bank loan supply shock has a strong and persistent negative impact on real GDP and the GDP deflator. This result comes … "spare tire" for the reduction in bank loans. We show that this result can be rationalized by a recently revived view of … banking, which holds that banks increase the nominal purchasing power of the economy when they create additional deposits in …

-offs and write-downs, we examine the impact of loan portfolio sector concentration on credit risk. By controlling for common … risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …

In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …