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 … financial health of lenders. Following a violation banks restrict usage of lines of credit by raising spreads, shortening …

overnight repurchase agreements (repo) and loan-level credit registry data on corporate loans. We find that borrowers on the …

and earnings capacity. Secondly, the impact of banks' capital gap on the credit supply and the security portfolio is … estimated while controlling for the macroeconomic environment. An increase in bank' balance sheet risk is shown to increase the …

This paper aims to shed light on the characteristics and particularly the determinants of credit-less recoveries. After … building a dataset and documenting some stylised facts of credit-less recoveries in emerging market economies, this paper uses … panel probit models to analyse key determinants of credit-less recoveries. Our main findings are the following. First, our …

We examine the relation between capital and liquidity creation. This issue is interesting because of the potential … impact on liquidity creation from tighter capital requirements such as those in Basel III. We perform Granger-causality tests … from 2000 to 2010. We observe a strong expansion in liquidity creation until the financial crisis that was mainly driven by …

We study how banks manage their liquidity among the various assets at their disposal. We exploit the introduction of … assets over time. Our results imply that frictions in one market for liquidity can spill over to several markets …

relationship with their savings bank prior to applying for a loan, default significantly less than customers with no prior … borrower characteristics as well as internal and external credit scores. Our results suggest that relationships of all kinds …

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 …

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 … addition, issuer firms reduce the amount of used bank credit but increase the overall amount of available external funds …, pointing to a substitution with bank credit and to a diversification of corporate funding sources. Studying their ex …