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 …

Within bank activities, which is normally defined as the joint exercise of savings collection and credit supply, risk … importance. It is most simply defined as the potential that a bank borrower or counterparty fails to fulfil correctly at maturity …

case of bank default, and provides it with sufficient funds as precautionary reserves. To identify and classify healthier …

During the last years the lending business has come under considerable competitive pressure and bank managers often … are able to explain the financial performance of bank lending activities. The analysis is based on the CFS-data-set that …

Our concern in this article is two-fold: first to see whether the determinants of bank distress and failure have been … risk-weighted counterparts as predictors, despite the focus on the later in the Basel framework. This paper examines bank … technique and discrete survival time analysis, to predict bank failures and draw inferences about the stability of contributing …