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Hasan, Iftekhar; Schmiedel, Heiko; Song, Liang - 2009

The European banking industry joined forces to achieve a fully integrated market for retail payment services in the euro area: the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Against this background, the present paper examines the fundamental relationship between retail payment business and overall bank...

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Efficiency and risk in european banking

Fiordelisi, Franco; Marqués Ibáñez, David; Molyneux, … - 2010

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks operating in the European Union. We find that reductions...

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Mergers and acquisitions and bank performance in Europe : the role of strategic similarities

Altunbas, Yener (contributor); … - 2004

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Monetary policy and bank equity values in a time of low interest rates

Ampudia, Miguel; Heuvel, Skander van den - 2018

This paper examines the effects of monetary policy on the equity values of European banks. We identify monetary policy shocks by looking at changes in the EONIA one-month and two-year swap contract rates during narrow windows around the press statements and press conferences announcing monetary...

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A stochastic forward-looking model to assess the profitability and solvency of European insurers

Berdin, Elia; Kok Sørensen, Christoffer; Pancaro, Cosimo - 2017

In this paper, we develop an analytical framework for conducting forward-looking assessments of profitability and … developments and stochastic claims. The model highlights the potential threats to insurers solvency and profitability stemming from …

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Monetary policy and bank profitability in a low interest rate environment

Altavilla, Carlo; Boucinha, Miguel; Peydró, José-Luis - 2017

We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … profitability are asymmetrically affected by accommodative monetary conditions, with a positive impact on loan loss provisions and … higher increase in profitability after a steepening of the yield curve. Finally, we assess the impact of unconventional …