repayments (default). Firms in Italy defaulted more against banks with high levels of past losses. We control for borrower … fundamentals with firm-quarter fixed effects; thus, identification comes from a firm's choice to default against one bank versus … bank relationships comes into doubt …

We show that financial sector bailouts and sovereign credit risk are intimately linked. A bailout benefits the economy …-financial sector to fund the bailout may be inefficient since it weakens its incentive to invest, decreasing growth. Instead, the … sovereign may choose to fund the bailout by diluting existing government bondholders, resulting in a deterioration of the …

We provide evidence that the strength of the bank lending channel varies considerably across three major events in the … easing (QE). We study how lending responds to each shock using detailed bank, firm, and household data from Portugal, a … more effective than signalling events at stimulating the bank lending channel …

crucial complementarities between supervision and monetary policy: centralised supervision offsets excessive bank risk …

The paper studies the central bank collateral framework and its impact on banks’ liquidity under an adverse stress test … four funding channels: unsecured loans, asset sales, private repurchase agreements, or Central Bank lending. We test three … highlight the heterogeneous effects across different jurisdictions and financial institutions. We find that bank equity losses …