Using data for a large sample of banks from 31 OECD countries over 1995–2018, we analyze the impact of belonging to a … banking group on banks’ net interest margins. Our results confirm a positive relationship between interest rates and interest … margins, which is stronger in a low-interest rate environment. For banks belonging to an international banking group, we find …

Over the last two years, several central banks in Europe have adopted NIRP to achieve price stability and/or reduce … central banks' signaling capacity. In some countries, a tiered central bank deposit rate has facilitated the pass-through to … money markets, while mitigating the direct costs of negative rates to banks. Nevertheless, going forward, reduced bank …

We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … profitability are asymmetrically affected by accommodative monetary conditions, with a positive impact on loan loss provisions and … banks benefit more from monetary policy easing, banks engaging more extensively in maturity transformation experience a …

profitability. We also show that banking profitability is pro-cyclical and is positively related to the stock of performing loans …