estimates. This suggests that nonbank syndicate participants' demand reveals information about borrower credit quality unknown … to the lead bank before bookbuilding. Our results challenge the conventional view of information asymmetries between …

Using detailed data of all German banks, we find that banks which have suffered heavy credit losses reduce their … assumption of constant leverage. Weakly capitalized banks grant fewer new loans than other banks. We control for credit demand … using a new method, the construction of tailored hypothetical bank competitors. …

minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …

The US credit boom has been identified as one of the causes of the global financial crisis and the resulting debt … overhang is seen as the primary reason for the weak economic recovery. Most of the existing literature links the credit boom to … non-financial private sector had been originated by shadow banks. Consequently, dampening credit creation by the …

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects … credit demand-side factors. The public mandate is set by local governments and stipulates a deviation from strict profit … percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks …

This paper uses matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro to show that exchange rate … depreciations lead to increased bank loan supply of large banks with significant net foreign asset exposure. This increase in … lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset …

Motivated by the build-up of shadow bank leverage prior to the financial crisis of 2007-2008, I develop a nonlinear …