This paper reviews trends in bank lending to the private sector, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern …

identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures …, which made the estimation of early warning models for bank supervision very difficult. This paper presents a unique database … of individual bank distress across the European Union from mid-1990s to 2008. Using this data set, we analyze the causes …

as soon as bank risk appetite heats up. Within this shorter time span, cuts must then be deeper than otherwise to also … achieve standard objectives. Finally, we analyze how robust this result is to the presence of a bank regulatory tool, and …

’s survey of terms of business lending. We find that ex-ante risk taking by banks (as measured by the risk rating of the bank …

This paper studies the impact of bank regulation and taxation in a dynamic model with banks exposed to credit and … liquidity risk. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare …

This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies … the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and …-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward. The likelihood of bank failure also increases with bank risk-taking. In the cross …