More than two years ago the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) to achieve its …, interest rate cuts also weigh on bank profitability. Substantial rate cuts may at some point outweigh the benefits from higher …

bank funding costs and borrower leverage matter for firms' access to finance. Increases in bank funding costs and borrowers …

This paper analyzes the drivers of cross-border bank lending to 49 Emerging Markets (EMs) during the period 1990Q1 … decrease in bank leverage, our results indicate a broad-based overall contraction of cross-border lending if the shock … literature has traditionally highlighted the influence of US monetary policy on driving cross-border bank flows, and more …

Given the heavy reliance on bank lending as the main source of financing in most Asian economies, banks could … potentially play a pivotal role in monetary policy transmission. However, we find that Asia's bank lending channel or, more … broadly, credit channel of domestic monetary policy is not very strong at the aggregate level. Using bank-level data for nine …

shocks on bilateral cross-border bank lending. We find robust evidence that an increase in funding costs following an … exogenous monetary tightening leads to a statistically and economically significant decline in cross-border bank lending. The …

an interbank rate as an operational target and suggest that the central bank could reduce uncertainty in short …

bank interest rates in India. There is evidence of asymmetric adjustment to monetary policy: the lending rate adjusts more … quickly to monetary tightening than to loosening. In addition, the speed of adjustment of deposit and lending rates to changes …

conditional profitability distributions. Real GDP growth and the NPL ratio are shown to be the most reliable determinants of bank …