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 …

orientation, pressures on funding models and entity structures could affect the efficiency of capital flows through the bank …

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

a tax onshadow bank profits …

We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks … across all bank nationalities, we find that larger distances deter cross-border bank lending to EMDEs more than to AEs. For …

Determinants of bank-level credit growth in Saudi Arabia are investigated by applying a panel approach to data spanning … 2000-15. Strong bank balance sheet conditions, economic activity, and oil prices support bank lending. Reduced bank … concentration appears to have helped. Lending remained robust in 2015 despite oil prices having declined, helped by strong bank …

Despite revisions to bank capital standards, fundamental shortcomings remain: the rules for setting capital … system of capital regulation that addresses these needs by making changes to all three pillars of bank regulation: only …

Whether and to what extent tougher bank regulation weighs on economic growth is an open empirical question. Using data … from 28 manufacturing industries in 50 countries, we explore the extent to which cross-country differences in bank … enterprises. This relationship, however, exists only for bank-based systems and emerging market economies. In the pre …

This paper offers novel evidence on the impact of raising bank capital requirements in the context of an emerging … market: Peru. Using quarterly bank-level data and exploiting the adoption of bank-specific capital buffers, we find that … higher capital requirements have a short-lived, negative impact on bank credit in Peru, although this effect becomes …