loan portfolio relatively unaffected. This may explain why the evidence for a bank lending channel in Germany seems to be …

A crucial condition for the existence of a credit channel through bank loans is that monetary policy should be able to … change bank loan supply. This paper contributes to the discussion on this issue by presenting empirical evidence from dynamic … the average bank reduces its lending more sharply in reaction to a restrictive monetary policy measure, the lower its …

Credit risk associated with interbank lending may lead to domino effects, where the failure of one bank results in the … bilateral credit relationships for the German banking system and test whether the breakdown of a single bank can lead to … reduces - but does not eliminate - the danger of contagion. Even so, the failure of a single bank could lead to the breakdown …