overnight unsecured loans. Using proprietary bank-level data, we find that interbank rate uncertainty significantly raises … positions and greater access to central bank funding …

How do real interest rates affect financial fragility? We study this issue in a model in which bank borrowing is subject … to rollover risk. A bank’s optimal borrowing trades off the benefit from investing additional funds into profitable assets … with the cost of greater risk of a run by bank creditors. Changes in the interest rate affect the price and amount of …

of collateralized risky debt. The presence of moral hazard creates a link between the volatility in bank asset returns … and bank leverage. We find that, while standard TFP shocks fail to replicate the volatility and cyclicality of leverage …

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 …

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 …

-run supply of bank credit. As U.S. bond rates have fallen, the pass-through of monetary shocks to loan and deposit rates has … weakened while the spread on U.S. bank loans has risen. I build a model in which banks earn deposit and loan spreads, deposits … dampened at low rates, because deposit spreads act as a better hedge for bank equity against unexpected monetary shocks. In the …

We study the impact of increasingly negative central bank policy rates on banks' propensity to become undercapitalized …