affects a bank's risk-taking behavior and its future loan growth.Methodology – A sample of European banks (27 member countries … with bank fixed effects to control for unobserved characteristics that might affect the dependent variable.Findings – The … suggests that the current Basel III requirement on liquidity ratio can decrease bank's risking-taking behavior while not …

We contribute to the empirical literature on the impact of shocks to bank capital in the euro area by estimating a … economy, namely a demand shock and a shock to bank capital. The main findings of the paper are as follows: i) Impulse …-response analysis shows that in response to a shock to bank capital, banks boost capital ratios by reducing their relative exposure to …

results highlight the importance of the starting level of bank capital, bank asset quality, and banks' adjustments for the …

the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for …

In June 2014 the ECB became the first major central bank to lower one of its key policy rates to negative territory … by using individual bank data for the euro area to identify possible adjustments by banks triggered by the introduction … of negative interest rates through three channels: government bond holdings, bank lending, and wholesale funding. We find …

, is an optimum model of bank behaviour, in which a bank statically rearranges its observed balance sheet by maximizing its …