International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the …. Empirical tests of the trilemma support this view that global bank effects are heterogeneous and that the primary drivers of …

We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …

' international activities. We find that country- and bank-specific variables capturing size have a major impact on banks' foreign …