This article investigates the short-term and long-term effects of bank market power on the availability of credit for … companies, and on firm investment. Our results suggest that an increase in bank market power reduces firms' credit availability …

hampered the smooth transmission of accommodative monetary policy. Using bank level data from 2007 to 2015, we directly measure … bank in the same month for loans to small and large firms (the "Small Firm Financing Premium", SFFP). We assess the role … played by both bank and macroeconomic factors in explaining the variation in the SFFP across countries and through time. We …

This paper studies how bank market power affects firm creation in innovative industries. Theoretically, I show that the … effect of bank market power is ambiguous. I exploit a 2012 policy intervention in Italy, designed to foster firm creation in … innovative industries through public bank guarantees. The policy increased firm creation in innovative industries by 50%, but the …

) relationship between the standard deviation (coefficient of variation) and the average in bank lending-rate markups. In a …. Normatively, under a given inflation target, welfare gains arise if a central bank can use additional liquidity-provision (or tax …

Patterns in cross-border banking have changed since the global financial crisis. This may affect domestic bank market … modes of cross-border banking impact bank concentration. I use a two- country general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … banking sector on bank market structures. The model suggests that both cross-border lending and bank FDI mitigate …

policy period, change in banks’ competitive behaviour affected the bank lending channel and discouraged banks from taking …

The paper examines how loan portfolio diversification drives bank returns, mainly focusing on the conditioning roles of … increased sectoral loan portfolio diversification reduces bank returns, but not all banks are equally affected. Banks that … adopted a business model towards non-interest activities are hurt less from loan portfolio diversification, and bank market …