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 …

economy. In our model, producers are financed by both bank debt and equity, and face a mix of systematic and idiosyncratic … macro-prudential policy is represented by a convex dependence of bank capital requirements on the quantity of …

crisis of 1864-66. Next, we describe the particular banking sector of Spain, characterized by the coexistence of the Bank of … Spain with multiple local banks of issue. We analyze the microeconomic behavior of each bank in response to the crisis and … find that, overall, the banks of issue performed well during the crisis. The Bank of Spain resulted as the most …

To what extent does the availability of credit depend on monetary policy? And, does this relationship vary with bank …-2011, we uncover three main regularities. First, the effect of monetary policy on bank lending is significant and heterogeneous … in Germany and Italy, which are characterized by a large number of banks; but it is very weak in Spain and more …

suggest that central bank liquidity has mitigated this effect most clearly on lending volumes. Lending to non …-financial corporations is more sensitive to wholesale funding shocks than lending to households. Moreover, bank characteristics matter for …