We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …

This paper investigates the relationship between short-term interest rates and bank risk. Using a unique database that …

We analyze whether the impact of monetary policy on bank risk depends upon bank characteristics. We relate the … materialization of bank risk during the financial crisis to differences in the monetary policy stance and bank characteristics in the … the insulation effect produced by capital and liquidity buffers on bank risk was lower for banks operating in countries …