We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …

This paper analyses bank exit (ie reorganisation and liquidation) legislation in selected financial centres: New York …, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo. The focus is on bank exit legislation applicable to commercial banks. The legislation … is analysed from the perspective of bank stakeholders, ie bank creditors, depositors and bank shareholders. The analysis …

the reasons vary according to the type of collateral. We use a unique dataset of bank loans granted to French distressed … of the bank to secure a loan, as no type of collateral helps to solve adverse selection and moral hazard problems. The …

bank loans from 43 countries. We test whether the degree information asymmetries affects the link between the presence of …

Bank regulators are required to consider a bank's record of providing credit to low- and moderate-income neighborhoods … and individuals in approving bank applications for mergers and acquisitions. We provide evidence that banks self … or neighborhoods, the greater the probability that the institution will acquire another bank in the following year …