We investigate how the interaction of the Brexit and COVID waves of the Bank of England’s quantitative easing with the … leverage ratio capital requirements or government COVID lending support schemes affected bank business lending. We find that …

set available at the European Central Bank related to the 2016 EU-wide stress test, this paper presents novel empirical … evidence that supervisory scrutiny associated to stress testing has a disciplining effect on bank risk. We ftnd that banks that …

set available at the European Central Bank related to the 2016 EU-wide stress test, this paper presents novel empirical … evidence that supervisory scrutiny associated to stress testing has a disciplining effect on bank risk. We ftnd that banks that …

evidence that supervisory scrutiny associated to stress testing has a disciplining effect on bank risk. We find that banks that …

-oriented regime for merger control increases banks’ stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …

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. …

resultant credit restriction by turning to other banks. Importantly the bank-lending channel is notably stronger when we account …