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...

In this paper, we examine the effectiveness of monetary policies in selected countries of the Euro area (France, Germany, and Italy), the United States and the United Kingdom for the period from 1990 to 2013. We additionally focus on the 2007 financial crisis where the efficacy of both...

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...