international financial system. Eventually the Bundesbank provided the role model for the European Central Bank. Hence, we examine … policy over the period 1975-1998. We compare the Bundesbank's monetary policy rule with those of the FED and of the Bank of …

liquidity crises and bank runs. Cooperation among reserve banks was essential for the cohesion and stability of the US monetary …

We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …

this policy through banks. This paper examines the role of bank liquidity, capitalization and market power as internal … monetary policy change on bank performance is also considered. The empirical analysis, using large panel datasets for the … rates by disaggregating down to the individual bank level. This is achieved by the use of a Local GMM technique that also …

-section of individual bank portfolio decisions. For this purpose, an augmented version of the DSGE model of Gertler and Karadi … (2013), featuring a segmented banking sector, is estimated for the euro area and combined with a bank portfolio optimisation … approach using granular bank level data. An important feature of our modelling approach is that it captures the heterogeneity …

We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … identification, the analysis focuses on the euro area, thereby exploiting substantial bank and country heterogeneity within a … monetary union where the central bank has implemented a broad range of unconventional policies, including quantitative easing …

We contribute to the empirical literature on the impact of shocks to bank capital in the euro area by estimating a … economy, namely a demand shock and a shock to bank capital. The main findings of the paper are as follows: i) Impulse …-response analysis shows that in response to a shock to bank capital, banks boost capital ratios by reducing their relative exposure to …