This paper empirically investigates whether the slowdown in the credit supply of Japanese banks during the early 1990s was caused by the deterioration of their equity capital as suggested by the capital crunch hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts that a decrease in capital will induce banks to...

This paper studies how banks' balance sheets and funding costs interact in the transmission of monetary-policy rates to banks' credit supply to firms. To do so, we use creditregistry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European Central Bank's policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmada, bilanço dışı hesapların özellikleri, banka grupları itibariyle bilanço dışı faaliyetlerinin büyüklüğü ve gelişimi, bankacılık sektöründe 2006-2011 yılları arasındaki gelişmeler ile risk ve karlılık açısından etkileri...