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This paper attempts to estimate comparable efficiency scores for European banks operating in the Single Market in the EU. Using a data set of more than 5000 large commercial banks from all major European banking markets over the period 1993-2004, the application of meta-frontiers enables us to...
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This paper studies the bilateral drivers of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) between European banks. Two findings document that banks use M&A as a device to leverage their expertise rather than to diversify. (i) Following the literature on matrimonial matching by using a binary logit model, the...
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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 …
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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 in a dynamic GMM panel estimator framework on an...
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This paper develops a DSGE model where banks use short-term deposits to provide firms with long-term credit. The demand for long-term credit arises because firms borrow in order to finance their capital stock which they only adjust at infrequent intervals. Within an RBC framework, we show that...
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natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by …
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We develop a dynamic structural model of bank behaviour that provides a microeconomic foundation for bank capital and …
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Exploiting confidential data from the euro area, we show that sound banks can pass negative rates on to their corporate depositors without experiencing a contraction in funding. These pass-through effects become stronger as policy rates move deeper into negative territory. Banks offering...
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This paper studies a banking model of maturity transformation in which regulatory arbitrage induces the coexistence of regulated commercial banks and unregulated shadow banks. We derive three main results: First, the relative size of the shadow banking sector determines the stability of the...
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the LRR is no longer the binding capital constraint on them. If the LRR is lower than the average bank's IRB requirement …
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