The recent financial crisis has led to changes in banks' funding patterns at the global level which have been widely discussed in policy and academic fora. This report aims at identifying and documenting the main changes in the funding patterns of euro area banks. Using statistics for monetary...

We study the relation between firms financial structure, access to external finance and labor productivity using a unique dataset of firm-level data for several euro area countries during the period 1995-2011. The empirical strategy is twofold. First we build a synthetic indicator of financial...

We present a DSGE model where firms optimally choose among alternative instruments of external finance. The model is used to explain the evolving composition of corporate debt during the financial crisis of 2008-09, namely the observed shift from bank finance to bond finance, at a time when the...