employment volatility during cyclical fluctuations, and leverage strengthens firm bargaining power in labour negotiations. Bank … deregulation may have mixed impacts on labour depending upon the state of bank regulations and labour markets. Leveraged buyouts …

This paper analyzes the effect of bank recapitalizations on lending, funding and asset quality of European banks …

We measure the impact of bank capital requirements on corporate borrowing and investment using loanE level data. The …

, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …

capture common factors in the residuals. We reproduce the puzzle for European bank credit spreads and hypothesize that the … information contagion through bank business model similarities. To capture this channel, we propose an intuitive measure for …

policy shocks to bank lending and real activity. We first use a large panel of U.S. banks to show that the sensitivity of … bank profits to interest rates increases significantly with measured income gap, even when banks use interest rate … derivatives. We then document that, in the cross-section of banks, income gap predicts the sensitivity of bank lending to interest …

financial integration in the market for bank liabilities. I focus on news about economic fundamentals as the key source of … recent Eurozone crisis. Bank balance sheets amplify and propagate fluctuations through three channels when leverage … non-tradable sector assets alter bank lending to tradable sector firms (intra-national spillover channel). Third, domestic …