This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … are more frequently discouraged from applying for bank credit and more likely to rely on informal finance. At the same … not driven by credit risk differences between female- and male-owned firms or by any idiosyncrasies in the set of …

?owned banks and for banks with low initial holdings of domestic sovereign bonds, and it is not fuelled by Central Bank liquidity … provision. Our results point to a “moral suasion” mechanism, and cannot be explained by concurrent risk?shifting, carry …

between monetary policy (MP) and bank stability. This technical paper sheds light, quantitatively, on the different mechanisms … underlying the relationship between MP and bank stability. It does so by reviewing microeconometric studies from the academic … touchstone. First, it provides a brief overview of the main theoretical channels linking bank stability and the transmission of …

more at firms expecting bank credit to improve in the future. Three separate unconventional policies by the ECB- the OMT … banks that were expected to increase SME lending due to the policy. Our results enhance our understanding of the bank …

environ-mental regulation and bank supervision. … with large prior fossil-lending exposures, suggesting a role for bank specialization. Lending to private companies in …