After Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, cross-border bank lending contracted sharply. To explain …

-, and bank-fixed effects allow us to disentangle credit supply and demand and to simultaneously control for the unobserved …

across borders. The simultaneous use of country- and bank-fixed effects allows us to disentangle credit supply and demand and … to control for general bank characteristics. We find that during the crisis banks continued to lend more to countries …

Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) on bank lending behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find no …

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 …

Bank leverage ratios have made an impressive and largely unopposed return; they are mostly used alongside risk …-weighted capital requirements. The reasons for this return are manifold, and they are not limited to the fact that bank equity levels … straightforward real estate loans. Bank leverage ratios are primarily seen as a microprudential measure that intends to increase bank …

imperfectly elastic supply of bank equity stemming from financial market segmentation. In our model, equity is costly and serves … and the design of bank stress testing. …