Despite the extensive debate on the effects of bank competition, only a handful of single-country studies deal with the … impact of bank competition on the cost of credit. We contribute to the literature by investigating the impact of bank … period 2001–2011, we consider a broad set of measures of bank competition, including two structural measures (Herfindahl …

We examine the impact of bank competition on firms' access to credit using a large panel of 900 banks matched to almost … hypothesis whereby low inter-bank competition worsens firms' credit conditions. Specifically, we find that higher bank market … power is associated with lower short and long-term bank credit, higher reliance on trade credit and higher funding costs for …

Recent literature suggests that regulatory risk measures do not adequately capture the actual economic risk of bank … risk sensitivity, i.e., the response of Basel risk weights to asset volatility as our measure of a bank's asset portfolio …

We study the impact of higher bank capital buffers, namely of the Other Systemically Important Institutions (O …

expectations for NPLs are found to be effective in reducing banks' NPLs. The phase-in of the policies can temporarily reduce bank …

We introduce an innovative approach to measure bank integration, based on the corporate culture of multinational … financial reports of global banks. We employ a two-step approach: as a first step, we investigate whether parent-bank or parent …-country characteristics are more important for bank integration. In a second step, we analyze whether bank integration affects the …