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 …

We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … monetary policies on market-based measures of expected bank profitability and credit risk, by employing an event study analysis … identification, the analysis focuses on the euro area, thereby exploiting substantial bank and country heterogeneity within a …

in line with the economic conditions they face. Bank responses feed back to the macroeconomic environment affecting …

Prior to the financial crisis, prudential regulation in the EU was implemented non-uniformly across countries, as … framework were more likely to require public support during the crisis. We instrument some characteristics of bank balance … sheets with these prudential indicators to investigate how they affect bank resilience. The share of non-interest income …

We study the impact of higher bank capital buffers, namely of the Other Systemically Important Institu- tions (O …

explain about two-thirds of the variation of bank capitalization over the business cycle. We estimate that provisioning …

This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank … characteristics. This allows us to study simultaneously the role that bank and firm weakness had in the credit reduction observed in … strong determinants of credit rejections, in the crisis period bank weakness made it harder to obtain external finance for …