As the euro area has a predominantly bank-based financial system, changes in the composition and strength of banks … crisis, in a context of financial market stress and weak bank balance sheets, unconventional monetary policy measures have … non-standard measures were successful in stimulating lending and which bank business models were more strongly affected …

hampered the smooth transmission of accommodative monetary policy. Using bank level data from 2007 to 2015, we directly measure … bank in the same month for loans to small and large firms (the "Small Firm Financing Premium", SFFP). We assess the role … played by both bank and macroeconomic factors in explaining the variation in the SFFP across countries and through time. We …

on bank profitability differs depending on the type of fee and commission income. Our results support the view that …

's debt with its main bank to firm's total assets. Our results show that the strength of the bank-firm relation has a positive … through which the intensity of bank-firm relationship supports SMEs' international activities. …

Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …

We show that negative policy rates affect the supply of bank credit in a novel way. Banks are reluctant to pass on … low-deposit banks. As a consequence, the introduction of negative policy rates by the European Central Bank in mid-2014 …

change over the study period. Quarterly data spanning 2009 to 2012 was sourced from the ARB-Apex Bank for a sample of 107 out …

quasi-exogenous variation in firms' banker networks from interstate bank branching deregulation to show that this …