Using corporate loan facilities and hand-matched information on bank lobbying, we show that borrower performance … improves after receiving credit from lobbying banks. This especially holds for opaque borrowers, about which the lending bank … regulators with valuable borrower information, which results in improved bank-lending supervisory decisions and corporate …

I investigate whether bank exposures to sovereign debt during the European debt crisis affected the real economy. I … show a shock to the marked-to-market (MTM) value of bank exposures to sovereign debt led to credit tightening in 2010 … exposures reduced bank short-term funding from US money market funds rather than affecting equity or working through alternative …

foster additional non-bank sources of finance, mobilize private savings more efficiently and enhance capital market … finances. In a CMU sovereign risks have to be treated adequately in bank regulation. Third, it should be assessed in advance … which sources of non-bank finance will be demanded by companies and will become systemic. We recommend an integrated …

Bank of Scotland with those at non-ailing banks in the UK; the other compares remuneration policies at UBS and Credit …

how the transmission depends on bank balance sheets, and how this changes once policy rates become negative. We review the …