relationship with their savings bank prior to applying for a loan, default significantly less than customers with no prior …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We … estimate an extended set of elasticities of bank credit with respect to a series of productivity measures of firms. We focus …

We study how the consequences of violations of covenants associated with bank lines of credit to firms vary with the … the heart of a new bank liquidity channel. This channel complements the traditional bank lending channel, which focuses on …

How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks’ attitude towards risk? The … answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank’s risk … confirm that disparities in market power, banks’ funding costs, and banks’ funding risks are reflected in bank lending rates …

bank credit conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms … bank loans of the same maturity than non-issuer firms, suggesting an improvement in their bargaining power with banks. In … addition, issuer firms reduce the amount of used bank credit but increase the overall amount of available external funds …

We show that negative policy rates affect the supply of bank credit in a novel way. Banks are reluctant to pass on … low-deposit banks. As a consequence, the introduction of negative policy rates by the European Central Bank in mid-2014 …

policy period, change in banks’ competitive behaviour affected the bank lending channel and discouraged banks from taking …

deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved time-invariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks' capital structures and that banks' leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets …