This paper examines how bank competition influences the bank lending channel in the Euro area countries. Using a large … policy actions depending on the degree of bank competition. We find that the effect of monetary policy on bank lending is … dependent on bank competition: the transmission of monetary policy through the bank lending channel is less pronounced for banks …

Despite the extensive debate on the effects of bank competition, only a handful of single-country studies deal with the … impact of bank competition on the cost of credit. We contribute to the literature by investigating the impact of bank … period 2001–2011, we consider a broad set of measures of bank competition, including two structural measures (Herfindahl …