We study the implications of the Eurosystem's expanded Asset Purchase Programme (APP) for the bank lending business of … confidential bank-level data on quantitative balance sheet items and interest rates as well as on qualitative survey responses to … the Eurosystem's Bank Lending Survey, we identify the exposure of banks to the APP and corresponding effects on loan …

The paper examines the bank lending activities of banks in a low interest rate environment. External financing of small …- and medium-sized enterprises in the euro area primarily takes place via bank loans and not through capital markets. Based … on the Bankscope database, bank balance sheet data is utilized. Control variables are included, such as for the system of …

explain about two-thirds of the variation of bank capitalization over the business cycle. We estimate that provisioning …

to promote bank soundness and sustained lending over the cycle. First, some evidence on bank dividends and earnings in … generates bank equity and credit supply volatility. Then, a DSGE model with key financial frictions and a banking sector is … by means of less volatile bank retained earnings, (ii) they induce welfare gains associated to a Basel III-type of …

of cross-border bank-to-real sector flows or banking-consolidation) remained limited. But we find that real banking …