Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration … of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure … with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and comprehensive financial account data, we also describe how the euro …

This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and … leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP growth. Notwithstanding the short history of the survey, the findings … cycle ; business cycle ; monetary policy transmission ; euro area …

unique Euro area bank lending surveys. Embedding this information within a standard VAR model, we find that: (1) the credit …) during the crisis, credit supply restrictions to firms in the Euro area and tighter standards for mortgage loans in the US …

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short …

unique Euro area bank lending surveys. Embedding this information within a standard VAR model, we find that: (1) the credit …) during the crisis, credit supply restrictions to firms in the Euro area and tighter standards for mortgage loans in the US …

The Euro area economic activity and banking sector have shown substantial fragility over the last years with remarkable … affected the transmission mechanism of the single Euro area monetary policy during the crisis until the end of 2011. The …

the 26 largest euro area banking groups. Banks with more customer deposits are negatively affected by negative rates, as …

crisis, and of the provision of central bank liquidity during the crisis. Exploiting the euro area institutional setting for …