bank loans to U.S. firms over the period of 1980- 2003. We find that investors react positively to such announcements if …’s headquarters state. Investor reaction is, in fact, the largest when the bank is foreign. Our evidence suggest that investors value … bank identities and reputation seem to matter a great deal. …

We analyze how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements a ect banks' balance sheet adjustments as well as bank … lending to the non-financial corporate sector. To do so, we relate Pillar 2 capital requirements to bank balance sheet data, a … examine how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements affect banks' balance sheet composition. Subsequently, we …

The appropriate level of bank capital and, more generally, a bank's capacity to absorb losses, has been at the core of … to avoid imposing losses on bank creditors or resorting to public recapitalizations of banks in past banking crises. The … bank credit and lending rates. Its findings broadly support the range of loss absorbency suggested by the Financial …

This paper studies the effects of the bank capital requirements imposed by the European authorities in October 2011 on … granted by a representative Spanish bank and several subsidiaries to nonfinancial corporations around that date. We document …

We analyze the impact of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England on cross … and UK, respectively. In general QE works at short maturities across bank locations and loan currencies, more strongly for …

Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and … period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower distance increases from zero to the median of about 900 miles is 17 …, geographical distance does not seem to have any effect on the loan spread of mortgages granted by non-bank lenders. Moreover, loans …