Published research that seeks to find the determinants of capital ratios does not distinguish between operational and other influences and presents inconsistent and opaque results. This paper rectifies previous findings, incorporating in the modelling methods a more accurate insight into how...

This paper examines the link between bank competition measures and risk indicators using quarterly interbank exposures data for all banks in Mexico during 2008Q1-2019Q1. The classical literature focuses on disentangling the link between competition and individual bank solvency risk. In this...

Using a panel data approach for two samples of listed and unlisted European banks, this paper provides evidence that, over a decade and a half preceding the pandemic, bank dividend payouts were adjusted in line with the motivations found in the literature. Banks change their dividend payouts...

Using balanced annual observations of insured US commercial banks, this paper investigates the nonlinear impacts of the lagged capital ratio on the interest rate spread by employing the panel threshold regression model with one and two threshold variables which divide our sample into two and...

We investigate the effectiveness of the Single Supervisory Mechanism’s (SSM) capital relief measures in response to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, in terms of large non-financial corporations’ lending outcomes. Using a granular borrower level dataset and controlling for the...

Using 11 years of monthly Italian bank-by-bank data, this paper correlates the bilateral amounts and the identity of each interbank borrower and lender with a long list of explanatory variables. The results show that interbank customer relationships, i.e. stable and strong relationships between...

What influences banks' borrowing costs in the unsecured money market? The objective of this paper is to test whether measures of centrality, quantifying network effects due to interactions among banks in the market, can help explain heterogeneous patterns in the interest rates paid to borrow...

This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and output growth. The responses of the lending survey, especially those related to loans to enterprises, are a significant leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP...

The US banking industry offers a unique, natural and fertile environment to study geography's effects on banks' behavior and performance. The literature on banks' operating performance, while extensive, says little about the influence of spatial interactions on banks' performance. We compute and...