We find that bank liquidity creation (LC) is statistically and economically significantly positively related to real … economic output (GDP). This is robust to using instrumental variables and many robustness checks. LC also beats bank assets in … bank LC generates more GDP per dollar than large bank LC, but large bank LC matters more overall because large banks …

method, and a number of bank, market, and regulatory characteristics. We review the existing literature and provide new …

This paper empirically examines how capital affects a bank's performance (survival and market share), and how this …

method, and a number of bank, market, and regulatory characteristics. We review the existing literature and provide new …

Stylised facts suggest that bank lending behaviour is highly procyclical. We offer a new hypothesis that may help … the bank.s lending cycle that results in an easing of credit standards. This easing of standards may be compounded by … simultaneous deterioration in the capacity of bank management to discipline its loan officers and reduction in the capacities of …

We test three hypotheses regarding changes in supervisory quot;toughnessquot; and their effects on bank lending. The …, if they occurred, affected bank lending. However, all of the measured effects are small, with 1% or less of loans … receiving harsher or easier classification, about 3% of banks receiving better or worse CAMEL ratings, and bank lending being …

Stylized facts suggest that bank lending behavior is highly procyclical. We test a new hypothesis that may help explain … bank's lending cycle that results in an easing of credit standards. This easing of standards may be compounded by … simultaneous deterioration in the capacity of bank management to discipline its loan officers and reduction in the capacities of …