Fungáčová, Zuzana; Solanko, Laura; Weill, Laurent - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 49 (2014) C, pp. 356-366
This paper examines how competition influences the bank lending channel in the euro area countries. Using a large panel … actions depending on the degree of bank competition. We find that the effect of monetary policy on bank lending is dependent … on bank competition: the transmission of monetary policy via the bank lending channel is less pronounced for banks with …