monetary policy does alter bank loan supply, with the effects most dependent on the liquidity of individual banks. Unlike in … the US, the size of a bank does generally not explain its lending reaction. We also show that the standard publicly …

Italy, alleviate the difficulties that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) face when they ask for a bank loan. We find that …

This paper investigates how bank profitability is affected by the corporate income tax (CIT). For this purpose it uses … provisions. In this way, we are able to disentangle the extent to which a bank is able to shift its tax-burden forward to its …

We investigate the effect of relatively loose monetary policy on bank risk through a large panel including quarterly … low levels of interest rates over an extended period of time contributed to an increase in bank risk. This result holds … supervision, securitization activity, and bank competition. The results suggest that monetary policy is not neutral from a …

Up to a point, banks and markets both foster economic growth. Beyond that limit, expanded bank lending or market … with financial crises, we find that the impact on GDP has been three times as severe for bank-oriented economies as it has …

of bank lending. The analysis proposes a setup that allows testing for structural shifts in the bank lending equation … may not translate into greater credit supply until bank balance sheets are sufficiently strengthened. …

This paper presents the estimation of an econometric model for bank lending to households in Italy in the period 1984 …

We analyze whether bank characteristics affect the impact of monetary policy on bank risk. We find that the insulation …