This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk …

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 …

framework were more likely to require public support during the crisis. We instrument some characteristics of bank balance … sheets with these prudential indicators to investigate how they affect bank resilience. The share of non-interest income …

In this study, we reassess the links between commercial bank ownership and lending growth during the 1996–2019 period …. Moreover, we find evidence that bank-specific characteristics were more important determinants of credit growth than ownership …

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 …

We assess the impact on bank bond holdings of regulatory changes in the requirements for bail-inable liabilities …) induced banks to increase their holdings of eligible bank bonds, especially if issued by other banks. The requirement for own … debt issued by global systemically important banks. Finally, we find evidence of increased within-country bank …

stakes or institutional holdings. We investigate the effects of these bank-firm governance links on the global syndicated … the endogeneity of the bank-firm governance link. Our findings suggest that the benefits of bank involvement in firms …