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This paper investigates the dynamics of the pass-through between market interest rates and bank interest rates in the … deposits and savings deposits. Bank soundness, credit risk and interest rate risk are found to exert a significant influence on … monetary policy was up (down). Overall, we find that competition among banks and competition from financial markets result in a …
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Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and...
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In this study we apply cluster analysis techniques, including a novel smoothing method, to detect some basic patterns and trends in the euro area banking sector in terms of the degree of homogeneity of countries. We find that in the period 1998-2004 the banking sectors in the euro area countries...
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in line with the economic conditions they face. Bank responses feed back to the macroeconomic environment affecting …
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We present new evidence on the structure of euro area securities markets using a multilayer network approach. Layers are broken down by key instruments and maturities as well as the secured nature of the transaction. This paper utilizes a unique dataset of banking sector crossholdings of...
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A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a twopronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality …
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