characteristics? Based on a common source of balance sheet data for the four largest economies of the euro area over the period 1999 …

process. We identify the impact of (i) joining the European Union and (ii) joining the Euro on cross-border M&As. We show that …

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 …

) as well as the special ad-hoc questions on the LTROs conducted in mid-February 2012. We estimate a panel-VAR for the euro …

We study correlations between the risk-free rate and sovereign yields of ten euro area countries using smooth …

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

Assessing the impact of the Asset Purchase Programme (APP) by the European Central Bank (ECB) on euro area sovereign … market in the second half of 2014. Therefore, to identify the APP for the euro area, we rely upon Bloomberg news on euro area … APP. The econometric results suggest that the impact of APP on euro area long-term sovereign yields is sizeable, albeit …