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 …

common factors than other syndicated loans. We show that loans extended to borrowers in market- versus bank-based financial … by proxies for bank syndicate structure, tranching, and acquired firms' characteristics. We find that loans extended to … borrowers in market-based financial systems have higher spreads than those in bank-based financial systems, but this difference …

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 …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of factors affecting Bank Interest Margins in eight countries of the South …-East European (SEE) region between 2000 and 2014. The purpose of this paper is to examine and investigate the main drivers of Bank … the dependent variable Interest Rate Spread (IRS - as a proxy variable for measuring variation in Bank Interest Rate …

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 …