This paper shows that the supply side of credit is a major factor for the phenomenonof hampered interest rate pass …

leverage on GDP, credit and the interest rate spread. Increasing capital requirements for banks should therefore have no strong …

As the euro area has a predominantly bank-based financial system, changes in the composition and strength of banks … crisis, in a context of financial market stress and weak bank balance sheets, unconventional monetary policy measures have … non-standard measures were successful in stimulating lending and which bank business models were more strongly affected …

This paper uses matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro to show that exchange rate … depreciations lead to increased bank loan supply of large banks with significant net foreign asset exposure. This increase in … lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset …