deepening credit markets dominates for the large majority of states of nature. The paper also uses a detailed bank-level dataset … that covers more than 500 banks for a similar time period to explore the role of financial integration — captured through … the participation of foreign banks — in propagating external shocks. It is found that interest rates charged and loans …

banks and financial firms is not significantly higher than in other sectors. This finding of a low sensitivity of pay and …

This paper provides evidence on what affects the marginal cost and availability of bank credit for firms in Argentina …. We study in particular how banks use different pieces of private and public information to screen firms and overcome … information generated in relationships is not. To capture the closeness of bank relationships, we resort to the concentration of …

liquidity. Bank lines of credit or loan commitments, which are legally binding contracts arranged to provide debt at the call of … paper examines whether bank lines of credit can indeed provide some insurance for REITs and allow them to access credits … 275 REITs publicly traded between 1992 and 2007 are analyzed. We find that bank lines of credit insulated REITs from …

the bank-enterprise relationship seems to be crucial in the granting of credit before the crisis of 2007, during the …

largest and most interconnected banks. In most jurisdictions, financial stability took precedence over all other policy …

In this paper we study the determinants of bank interest margins for all the European countries participating in the … anchor their exchange rate to the main currencies of the ERM. We use a set of bank characteristics, macroeconomic and … liberalization, banking crisis and periods of exchange rate turmoil, could be accepted as explanatory variables for bank interest …

In this paper we explore the properties of the global banking network using cross-border bank lending data for 184 …

A recent strand of literature emphasizes a scope economy between bank funding and lending, which is related to the … banks' role of liquidity providers. These papers find that the presence of demand deposits can “naturally” hedge the … simultaneously, banks can enjoy a risk-reducing synergy, and explain the positive correlation across banks between demand deposits …

around the years 1998-1999 banks started to issue a large number of option-like securities named warrant or, as in Italy … specific nature of the issuers, banks, influences the overpricing. The results of the regression analysis performed to test the … a higher market power and allows banks for setting higher prices …