Large-scale asset programmes aim to impact the real economy through the financial system. The ECB has focused much of its policies on safe assets. An intended channel of transmission of this type of programme is the "portfolio rebalancing channel", whereby investors are influenced to shift their...

The recent wave of financial innovation, particularly innovation related to the application of information and communication technologies, poses a serious challenge to the financial industry's business model in both its banking and non-banking components. It has already revolutionised financial...

In this paper I investigate whether there is a systematic difference between conventional banks and participation banks in terms of their response to monetary policy shocks. For this purpose I look at the quarterly loan growth of commercial banks and participation banks in Turkish banking sector...

This paper sheds light on the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on bank lending. Using data on German banks for 2014-2016, I show that QE encourages banks to rebalance from securities to loans. For identification, I use bond redemptions as exogenous variation in banks' need to rebalance their...

Exploiting a granular dataset of banks' security holdings I assess the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bank lending and security holdings. Using a difference-in-differences regression setup and holding the security composition of each bank constant at its level in January 2014, well...

We study the impact of monetary policy on the supply of bank credit when bank lending is also denominated in foreign currencies. Accessing a comprehensive supervisory dataset from Hungary, we find that the supply of bank credit in a foreign currency is less sensitive to changes in domestic...

This paper presents a micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches. Using a survey among German firms which regularly queries the firms' assessment of the current willingness of banks to extend credit we estimate the probability of a restrictive credit supply policy by time...

Nachweis von unvollkommenem Wettbewerb auf den Depositen- und Darlehensmärkten der EU auf der Grundlage des Bresnahan-Modells für Marktmacht Bresnahan und Lau haben ein Modell für die Gewinnmaximierung von Bankenoligopolen entwickelt, um den Grad der Marktmacht einer Durchschnittsbank zu...

Kreditrestriktionen im Eurogebiet? – Perspektiven der Banker Analyse erster Ergebnisse des Bank Lending Survey des Eurosystems Schwaches Kreditwachstum kennzeichnete den Beginn dieses Jahrzehnts im Eurogebiet, vor allem aber weiterhin die Lage in Deutschland, und ging einher mit dem...