dimensionality reduction optimally, given the nature of our dataset which features a large number of dimensions for each bank ('fat …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …

How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks' attitude towards risk? The … answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank's risk … confirm that disparities in market power, banks' funding costs, and banks' funding risks are re ected in bank lending rates …

period. In addition, we observe that Total Factor Productivity growth for the median euro area bank decreased from around 2 … bank's efforts in areas such as rationalisation of branches, digitalisation of business processes and possibly mergers and …

presumably unaffected by the sovereign crisis insofar as they could count on the actual or potential support of their parent bank …

This paper analyzes the effects of bank mergers on bank-firm relationships. Using matched bank-firm level data, I find … positive effects of mergers for borrowers that continue the lending relationship with the consolidated bank. On average …

of banking sector concentration. Using a local projections framework with 2003-2023 country-level and bank-level data for …

bank health and the consequences for aggregate productivity in 11 European countries. Controlling for cyclical effects, the … Europe may at least partly stem from bank forbearance. The increasing survival of zombie firms congests markets and … around one-third of the impact of zombie congestion on capital misallocation can be directly attributed to bank health and …