We provide evidence on the effect of the slope of the yield curve on economic activity through bank lending. Using … rates) boosts bank profits and the supply of bank loans. Intuitively, a higher term premium represents greater expected … profits on maturity transformation, which is at the core of banks’ business model, and therefore incentivizes bank lending …

contract their balance sheets. These bank responses generate externalities that propagate in the form of macro … macro-financial feedback loops can significantly affect macroeconomic outcomes and bank-specific stress tests results. The … heterogeneity in bank lending responses matters: it determines how each bank fares under adverse conditions and the external effects …

This study models the impact of new capital regulations proposed under Basel III on bank profitability by constructing … a stylized representative bank's financial statements. We show that the higher cost associated with a one … scheduled commercial banks, one-percentage point increase in capital ratio can be recovered by increasing the bank lending …

orientation, pressures on funding models and entity structures could affect the efficiency of capital flows through the bank …

identifies some key patterns of cross-border investment in bank subsidiaries by key banking groups in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

This paper assesses the role of bank and nonbank financial institutions' balance sheet foreign exposures and risk … conditions may take place through derivatives transactions with banks, the hedging practices of which trigger bank related …

with bank-level data to study the contagion potential of an exogenous shock via credit and funding risks. We find that …-linear function of the combination of network structures and bank-specific characteristics …

locations of large-bank branches have demographics typically associated with greater financial sophistication, large-bank …

What is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican … 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that …

paper is to organize and summarize studies examining the role of GDP growth and its impact on bank loan quality. This … a favourable economic environment. Far less frequently, the macroeconomic activity leads to future bank losses …