strong link is present between central bank liquidity support and sovereign holdings, opportunistic strategies or reach … advantage of their higher risk-bearing capacity to gain exposure (via central bank liquidity) to the set of riskier sovereign …

sovereigns manifested in a liquidity shock to their international funding through two channels: (i) a contraction in cross … households, is documented for euro area banks affected by the international liquidity shock and that drew on ECB liquidity under …

characterised by market fragmentation and extended liquidity provision by the ECB. For our analysis we develop a theoretical …

We analyze the impact of market liquidity on bank lending in the euro area for different segments over the period 2003 … to 2016. Our results on the aggregate level show that market liquidity is positively related to loan volumes and … liquidity has an asymmetric effect on bank lending: The negative impact of a reduction in liquidity is more significant than the …

-performing loans (NPLs) on bank cost of capital, credit and liquidity creation in the Eurozone. Empirical results confirm the model …-term. Moreover, the increased cost of capital reduces credit and liquidity creation, and the more so the less capitalized is the bank …

that reliance on retail deposit funding and the level of excess liquidity holdings may increase banks' responsiveness to … coverage of our loan data and the explicit consideration of banks' excess liquidity holdings are likely reasons for this … different result compared to some earlier literature. We are the first to document the importance of banks' excess liquidity …

especially in coincidence with the largest ECB liquidity injections. Second, bank exposures significantly amplified the …