We analyse the effects of supranational versus national banking supervision on credit supply, and its interactions with … institutional change leading to the centralisation of European banking supervision; (iii) high-frequency monetary policy surprises … supervision reduces credit supply to firms with very high ex-ante and ex-post credit risk, while stimulating credit supply to …

We study the relationship between banks' size and risk-taking in the context of supranational banking supervision …. Consistently with theoretical work on banking unions and in contrast to analyses emphasising incentives under- pinned by the too …

tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition …

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 seem to have become somewhat more homogeneous, although the …

applicable also to the European markets where regulatory and economic borders do not coincide and bank identities and reputation … seem to matter a great deal. -- Relationship banking ; bank organization ; bank origin ; loan announcement return …

market overlap, the decline is much smaller when there is a significant increase in local banking market concentration …

This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …