This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets … that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the failure of one bank can undermine the public's confidence in the … forbearance to the initially failing bank in the hope that it - and hence other vulnerable banks - survives. By contrast, public …

deposits tends to be floored at zero, which limits the transmission of policy rate cuts to bank funding costs. We investigate … and sheds some new light on results that associate NIRP with a contraction in bank loans, albeit in specific market …, pointing to a strong complementarity of NIRP with central bank liquidity injections, e.g. via asset purchases …

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short … securitization activity, weak supervision for bank capital and too low for too long monetary policy rates. Conversely, low long …

This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets … that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the failure of one bank can undermine the public’s confidence in the … forbearance to the initially failing bank in the hope that it - and hence other vulnerable banks - survives. By contrast, public …

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but at the same time restrict the mode of entry. We study …

Europe’s financial structure has become strongly bank-based – far more so than in other economies. We document that an … paper concludes by discussing policy solutions to Europe’s “bank bias”, which include reducing regulatory favouritism …

deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved time-invariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks' capital structures and that banks' leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets …