We provide evidence on the effect of the slope of the yield curve on economic activity through bank lending. Using … rates) boosts bank profits and the supply of bank loans. Intuitively, a higher term premium represents greater expected … profits on maturity transformation, which is at the core of banks' business model, and therefore incentivizes bank lending …

influenced by bank size and market share, and to a somewhat lesser extent by deposit rates and non-performing loans. In addition …. Furthermore, bank size and market share, as well as the differential between domestic and foreign rates, are the most important …

-run supply of bank credit. As U.S. bond rates have fallen, the pass-through of monetary shocks to loan and deposit rates has … weakened while the spread on U.S. bank loans has risen. I build a model in which banks earn deposit and loan spreads, deposits … dampened at low rates, because deposit spreads act as a better hedge for bank equity against unexpected monetary shocks. In the …

des langfristigen Marktzinsniveaus und der Zinsstruktur durch die Bundesbank ab. -- Umfangreiche empirische Analysen für … auf die Zinsstruktur, nicht jedoch auf das langfristige Marktzinsniveau nachweisbar ist, ergeben sich erhebliche Zweifel …