the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for …

We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … identification, the analysis focuses on the euro area, thereby exploiting substantial bank and country heterogeneity within a … monetary union where the central bank has implemented a broad range of unconventional policies, including quantitative easing …

This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and … leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP growth. Notwithstanding the short history of the survey, the findings … results are supportive of the existence of a bank lending, balance sheet, and risk-taking channel of monetary policy. They …

evolution of bank credit. We use a unique loanlevel dataset comprising multiple credit registers from several European countries … with borrower and bank-level characteristics and with indicators summarising macroprudential and monetary policy actions …. We find that monetary policy easing increases both bank lending and lending to riskier borrowers, especially when there …