, and the interaction with banks’ risk management, supervisory tools and statistical requirements. It also examines how the … application of fair value accounting to banks’ trading book has impacted their share price volatility. It is concluded that the …

-interest rate credit conditions and terms, the risk perception of banks and the willingness of banks to lend. Credit standards are … the internal guidelines or criteria of a bank which reflect the bank’s loan policy. The terms and conditions of a loan …

Following the adoption by the Basel Committee of new capital rules for banks, a process is now taking place in the EU …

loans and the spreads between the interest rates on loans granted by banks and the interest rates banks had to pay on their …

1) Are Italian mutual banks efficient? Evidence from two different cost frontier techniques, by Juan Sergio Lopez …, Alessandra Appenini, and Stefania P.S. Rossi. The aim of the first paper is to analyze the efficiency of co-operative banks in … small financial institutions that used to operate in a more protected environment. Based on a panel of about 450 banks …

This essay discusses the corporate governance of banks. Bank managers must balance competing demands from shareholders … and regulators, which distinguishes banks from most other firms. The essay is structured into three parts. The theoretical …

As the euro area has a predominantly bank-based financial system, changes in the composition and strength of banks … developments in banks' balance sheets, profitability and risk-bearing capacity and analyses their relevance for monetary policy. We …