The purpose of this paper is to analyze the performance, the risk-taking level and the credit growth of fourteen emerging and developed countries' banks. Also, we aim to assess the influence of monetary policy on the bank lending channel in both pre- and post-crisis periods and whether this...

We research the association of the sovereign crisis stemming from periphery EMU countries and monetary policy in terms of financial stability. Empirical results are derived on the linkage of monetary policy reflected through interbank lending rates i.e. banking sector fragility to long term...