We analyze the impact of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England on cross … and UK, respectively. In general QE works at short maturities across bank locations and loan currencies, more strongly for …

We find that stricter merger control legislation increases abnormal announcement returns of targets in bank mergers by …

This paper studies the effects of the bank capital requirements imposed by the European authorities in October 2011 on … granted by a representative Spanish bank and several subsidiaries to nonfinancial corporations around that date. We document …

bank- rm level credit data, we show that banks reallocate credit within their domestic loan portfolio in at least three …

across countries, which could explain the plurality in conclusions in the Islamic/conventional bank efficiency debate. We … find that the alignment between the two bank types is positively related to the country's financial depth, transparency …, economic stability and banking concentration. At the bank level, the alignment in the two banking systems is associated with …

Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and … period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower distance increases from zero to the median of about 900 miles is 17 …, geographical distance does not seem to have any effect on the loan spread of mortgages granted by non-bank lenders. Moreover, loans …