reduce loan granting, especially to firms or from banks with lower capital or liquidity ratios. Moreover, responding to … resultant credit restriction by turning to other banks. Importantly the bank-lending channel is notably stronger when we account …

We analyze how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements a ect banks' balance sheet adjustments as well as bank … lending to the non-financial corporate sector. To do so, we relate Pillar 2 capital requirements to bank balance sheet data, a … examine how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements affect banks' balance sheet composition. Subsequently, we …

-oriented regime for merger control increases banks’ stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …

. Macroeconomic factors also play a large role explaining the impact of securitization activity on bank lending standards: banks more …

This paper provides the first empirical evidence that bank regulation is associated with cross-border spillover effects … different localities across 16 countries. We find that lower barriers to entry, tighter restrictions on bank activities, and … higher minimum capital requirements in domestic markets are associated with lower bank lending standards abroad. The effects …

monitoring incentives. From our findings it follows that current iniciatives on risk retention by the originator, and more …

under Islamic finance. Liquidity management issues are thus discussed here, with particular reference to the euro area. …

We explore the effect of tax reforms in Italy and Belgium, respectively that decrease the cost of equity on bank …

We employ proprietary data from a large bank to analyze how - in times of crisis - depositors react to a bank … nationalization, re-privatization and an accompanying increase in deposit insurance. Nationalization slows depositors fleeing the bank …