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Bank Lending and Monetary Transmission in the Euro Area
De Santis, Roberto A. - 2013
in Germany and Italy, which are characterized by a large number of banks; but it is very weak in Spain and more … homogeneous in France, where the banking industry has a higher degree of market concentration. Second, there is some evidence that … monetary policy exerts larger effects on cooperative and savings banks with lower liquidity and less capital in Germany and …
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Profit Dynamics Across the Largest Euro Area Countries and Sectors
Maurin, Laurent - 2011
This paper explores the behavior of profits in the four largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117688
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Relative House Price Dynamics Across Euro Area and US Cities : Convergence or Divergence?
Hiebert, Paul - 2010
differentials in explaining city-level house price dispersion in Germany, France, and the US (but not in Italy or Spain once …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142991
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Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in the Euro Area
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2010
This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the euro area, and investigates their linkages in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141028
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What Lies Beneath the Euro's Effect on Financial Integration? Currency Risk, Legal Harmonization, or Trade?
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2010
Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro's effect on financial integration using data on bilateral banking linkages among twenty industrial countries in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142360
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The Impact of Supply Constraints on Bank Lending in the Euro Area - Crisis Induced Crunching?
Hempell, Hannah Sabine - 2010
Aggregate loan development typically hinges on a combination of factors that impact simultaneously on the demand and the supply side of bank lending. The financial turmoil starting in mid-2007 had detrimental consequences for banks' balance-sheets, cost of funds and profitability, thus weighing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136644
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Interbank Market Integration, Loan Rates, and Firm Leverage
Ongena, Steven - 2010
We study the effect of interbank market integration on small firm finance in the build-up to the 2007-2008 financial crisis. We use a comprehensive data set that contains contract terms on individual loans to 6,047 firms across 14 European countries between 1998:01 and 2005:12. We account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137713
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Bank Risk-Taking, Securitization, Supervision and Low Interest Rates : Evidence from the Euro Area and the U.S. Lending Standards
Maddaloni, Angela - 2010
Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short-term interest rates soften standards, for household and corporate loans. This softening – especially for mortgages – is amplified by securitization activity, weak supervision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138019
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Monetary Policy and the Flow of Funds in the Euro Area
Bonci, Riccardo - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the transmission of monetary policy in the euro area, assessing the impact of an unexpected increase of the short-term interest on the lending and borrowing activity of the different economic sectors. We exploit the information content of the flow-of-funds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118686
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Risk, Capital Buffer and Bank Lending : A Granular Approach to the Adjustment of Euro Area Banks
Maurin, Laurent - 2012
We develop a partial adjustment model in order to estimate the factors contributing to banks' internal target capital ratio, lending policy and holding of securities. The model is estimated on a panel of listed euro area banks and country specific macrovariables. Firstly, banks' internal target...
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