In June 2014 the ECB became the first major central bank to lower one of its key policy rates to negative territory … by using individual bank data for the euro area to identify possible adjustments by banks triggered by the introduction … of negative interest rates through three channels: government bond holdings, bank lending, and wholesale funding. We find …

banks' credit supply to firms. To do so, we use creditregistry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European … Central Bank's policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The pass-through of the rate cuts to banks' funding costs differs across the euro …' financing constraints matter less for the supply of credit and there is more risk taking. To rationalize these findings, we …

banks’ credit supply to firms. To do so, we use credit-registry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European … Central Bank’s policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The pass-through of the rate cuts to banks’ funding costs differs across the euro …’ financing constraints matter less for the supply of credit and there is more risk taking. To rationalize these findings, we …

After the global financial crisis and during the European sovereign debt crisis, bank lending to companies in the euro … area slowed down dramatically bringing the economy close to a credit crunch. It was only after the start of the ECB …’s quantitative easing programme in early 2015 that bank lending improved sustainably. The study analyses the impact of the ECB …

After the global financial crisis and during the European sovereign debt crisis, bank lending to companies in the euro … area slowed down dramatically, bringing the economy close to a credit crunch. It was only after the start of the European … Central Bank (ECB) quantitative easing programme in early 2015 that bank lending improved sustainably. This study analyses the …

deposits tends to be floored at zero, which limits the typical transmission of policy rate cuts to bank funding costs. We … risk taking by banks under NIRP and contrasts results that associate NIRP with a contraction in bank loans. Broader … holdings for the effectiveness of NIRP, pointing to a strong complementarity of NIRP with central bank liquidity injections, e …

As the euro area has a predominantly bank-based financial system, changes in the composition and strength of banks … crisis, in a context of financial market stress and weak bank balance sheets, unconventional monetary policy measures have … non-standard measures were successful in stimulating lending and which bank business models were more strongly affected …

banks' credit supply to firms. To do so, we use credit-registry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European … Central Bank's policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The pass-through of the rate cuts to banks' funding costs differs across the euro …' financing constraints matter less for the supply of credit and there is more risk taking. To rationalize these findings, we …

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher … market failures prevent SMEs in southern euro area countries from access to key inputs, in particular access to finance. This … paper makes an assessment of feasible options to improve finance access of SMEs, available to EU institutions as well as to …

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher … market failures prevent SMEs in southern euro area countries from access to key inputs, in particular access to finance. This … paper makes an assessment of feasible options to improve finance access of SMEs, available to EU institutions as well as to …