What is the impact of a sudden and sizeable increase in bank capital requirements on the lending activity by directly … affected banks and by non-affected non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs)? To answer this question, we apply a difference … activities, in riskier and more competitive borrower segments, but NBFIs do not seem to rely on increased bank funding to finance …

-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 …