When default losses elevate borrowing costs, expanding credit cannot stabilize the economy because default rates feed back to lending rates through bank balance sheets. Asset management companies (AMCs) break this loop by purchasing nonperforming loans at their long-run recovery values, thereby...

Die vorliegende wirtschaftshistorische Untersuchung geht der Frage nach, wie sich Bilanzwachstum und insbesondere der Ausbau von Auslandaktivitäten auf die Gewinne ausgewählter Schweizer Banken in den vergangenen knapp vier Jahrzehnten ausgewirkt haben. Das Ergebnis für die Jahre 1987 bis...

This study examines the relationship between banks' ESG performance and core risk and balance sheet indicators in the Turkish banking sector. Using an unbalanced panel of eight banks listed on Borsa Istanbul over the period 2008-2023, we estimate bank fixed-effects models with one-year-lagged...

This paper explores the impact of the regulatory leverage ratio (LR) on banks' demand for reserves and thus the pricing of overnight liquidity in the euro area money markets. We use daily transaction-level money market data during the period between January 2017 - February 2023 and examine the...

Recently, there has been increasing research interest in the historical composition of central bank reserves. However, studies in this area is hindered by a lack of data, as such data spanning multiple centuries is only available for a small number of countries. This paper presents an empirical...