bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks' capital structures …

deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved timeinvariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks' capital structures and that banks' leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets …. -- Bank capital ; capital regulation ; capital structure ; leverage …

This paper assesses European bank deleveraging and its impact on global credit conditions. Before the onset of the … international banks although European banks remain a dominant source of funding. "Good" bank deleveraging is still necessary from a … core component of this multi-year deleveraging process. Taken together, European bank deleveraging warrants close attention …

This article uses European Central Bank (ECB) survey data to assess whether gender matters in the small firms … difficulty in accessing bank finance: on the demand side, they apply for bank loans less frequently, as they more often … of gender discrimination appears in the supply of bank loans in Germany, Italy, and Spain, while some demand obstacles …