As part of the International Banking Research Network, the Banque de France contribution to the research project on … baseline results are sensitive to the inclusion of central bank liquidity assistance …

sample period is split in two: before and after the MFI implemented France's regulatory EUR 10,000 loan ceiling. In the first …

buffers and loan growth with firm-level data for French banks over the period 1993-2009. Our findings reveal that bank capital … capital is considered. Moreover, by performing Granger causality tests at the bank level, we find evidence of a two …

This paper studies the country-level reaction of bank credit default swap (“CDS”) spreads and stock prices to bailout … announcements in the US and five European countries in October 2008. Bailouts announcements are associated with bank CDS spreads … narrowing, both for domestic and foreign banks, pointing to an important role for cross-border exposures. Movements in bank …

This paper reviews the market reaction to bank rescue packages announced in six countries between October 2008 and … shareholders as seen in the movement of bank stock prices. Government interventions benefited creditors at the expense of … shareholders, with bank CDS spreads narrowing around the announcements in all cases. Despite a brief positive reaction, bank stock …

The aim of this paper is to check the possible existence of a bank lending channel in France. For that purpose, we have … on bank lending …