minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …

Healthy banks are crucially important for smooth lending. Correspondingly, bank regulations including Basel III intend … especially during the transition period. Using data on firm-bank relationships in Germany between 2005 and 2007, we show that the … debt ratio of banks is related to the bank loan risk. In order to assess the potential effect of tighter capital …

This paper uses matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro to show that exchange rate … depreciations lead to increased bank loan supply of large banks with significant net foreign asset exposure. This increase in …